Using FireBird on IE only sites??

Mikhail Capone · Post by **Mikhail Capone** » October 11th, 2003, 5:36 pm

phantomcasper wrote:I kinda jumped the gun. It allowed me to get on the site but when I went to free scan it was just blank. I dont think it worked right. thanks for the help though. :usa

Just a guess, but this is probably an Active-X problem...

zoom314a · Post by **zoom314a** » October 11th, 2003, 5:45 pm

Mikhail Capone wrote:
phantomcasper wrote:I kinda jumped the gun. It allowed me to get on the site but when I went to free scan it was just blank. I dont think it worked right. thanks for the help though. :usa

Just a guess, but this is probably an Active-X problem...

I just replace one websites web address with another, But You do need a plugin, Namely the MeadCo Neptune plugin or the code below won't work. No need for IE really, We just use the IE engine as an Extension of Firebird! LOL.....

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javascript: function IE() { var addy = 'http://www.trojanscan.com/'; document.write('\<html\>\<head\>\<title\>Neptune - ' + addy + '\</title\>\</head\>\<body marginheight=\%220\%22 marginwidth=\%220\%22 leftmargin=\%220\%22 bottommargin=\%220\%22 rightmargin=\%220\%22 topmargin=\%220\%22\>\n\n\<embed type=\%22application/x-meadco-neptune-ax\%22 pluginspage=\%22http://www.meadroid.com/neptune/download/\%22 width=\%22100%\%22 height=\%22100%\%22 param-location=\%22' + addy + '\%22\>\</embed\>\n\n\ </body\>\</html\>'); document.close(); } void(IE());

Simpson · Post by **Simpson** » October 11th, 2003, 8:25 pm

There's an extension that allows one to view a page in IE. Let's face it, there are times when only IE will properly render a page. This extension is quite helpful.

http://roub.net/xul/ieview/

zoom314a · Post by **zoom314a** » October 11th, 2003, 8:47 pm

Well the javascript part above with the proper address and the Neptune plugin works just fine on WindowsUpdate.

rmjb · Post by **rmjb** » October 12th, 2003, 9:15 am

Simpson wrote:There's an extension that allows one to view a page in IE. Let's face it, there are times when only IE will properly render a page. This extension is quite helpful.

http://roub.net/xul/ieview/

Hey Simpson,

Does this render the page in the current window or does it open IE separately?

Also, can you add buttons to the toolbar or a bookmarklet?

- rmjb

Simpson · Post by **Simpson** » October 12th, 2003, 11:07 am

It opens IE separately

3-Sheds · Post by **3-Sheds** » October 14th, 2003, 9:33 am

Simpson wrote:There's an extension that allows one to view a page in IE. Let's face it, there are times when only IE will properly render a page. This extension is quite helpful.

http://roub.net/xul/ieview/

This is a really handy extension. I couldn't get it to work at first though. All I got was a message saying 'Unable to locate Internet Explorer'. I thought it might be worth mentioning why.

I'd customised my Windows Start Menu and didn't have a shortcut to IE in any of the Start Menu folders. The extension looks for the shortcut in the Start Menu tree in order to locate Internet Explorer. It has to be called 'Internet Explorer' and not IE or anything else.

I found this out by looking into the ieview.jar file. There's a note about it in there. As soon as I created the shortcut and put it in one of the folders, the extension worked.

David H · Post by **David H** » October 14th, 2003, 10:09 am

I generally use the Context Menu Extensions "open with applications" function myself to send the page to other browsers like IE.

Post by **James** » October 14th, 2003, 5:30 pm

How about using this handy External App buttons extension by Torisugari.

http://cgi29.plala.or.jp/~mozzarel/addo ... p0_6_1.xpi

You can put buttons on the toolbar that will open programs such as browsers like IE. Click The IE button and IE will open the same page you were viewing in Firebird when you use an argument like say %addressbar%.

For this version just:
Just drag the external app button box to toolbar (from customize screen) and right click on space and select add new button and a icon button will be made of the *.exe (or drag and drop desktop shortcut to toolbar even). right click on the created toolbar button and go to properties to do more like change icon, tooltip or arguments for example.

What am I saying it's a easy extension to setup and use heh.

emjayef · Post by **emjayef** » October 25th, 2003, 9:44 am

3-Sheds wrote:
Simpson wrote:There's an extension that allows one to view a page in IE. Let's face it, there are times when only IE will properly render a page. This extension is quite helpful.

http://roub.net/xul/ieview/

This is a really handy extension. I couldn't get it to work at first though. All I got was a message saying 'Unable to locate Internet Explorer'. I thought it might be worth mentioning why.

I'd customised my Windows Start Menu and didn't have a shortcut to IE in any of the Start Menu folders. The extension looks for the shortcut in the Start Menu tree in order to locate Internet Explorer. It has to be called 'Internet Explorer' and not IE or anything else.

I found this out by looking into the ieview.jar file. There's a note about it in there. As soon as I created the shortcut and put it in one of the folders, the extension worked.

I went through the same thing, but was not successful. I read the comment, and I had the shortcut with the correct name. I even tried copying it to other folders in the start menu hierarchy. This was with Windows 2000. Did you put it in your profile section, or the "all users" section? Which Windows?

Thanks, I'm really hoping to get it to work.

MonkeeSage · Post by **MonkeeSage** » April 6th, 2004, 2:40 pm

<perturbed>

Wow, Mike`, your bookmarklet looks amazing like the one I wrote (5 moths prior to your post -- see IE via Neptune plugin & Windows Update via Neptune plugin -- listed here) for using Windows Update / IE with K-Meleon...I mean, it's uncanney that we even used the same names for our function (IE()), and that we used the same attributes for the body tag, and that we both used double quotes for the attribute values...what are the odds! (Mabye you got the bookmarklet from somewhere else and didn't know I wrote it -- no worries -- but in any case you shouldn't pretend like you wrote it when you didn't).

</perturbed>

BTW, here is a cleaned-up version:

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javascript:(function() { document.open(); document.write('<html><head><title>IE Browsing Frame (via Neptune plugin)</title></head><body style=\'margin: 0px;\'><embed type=\'application/x-meadco-neptune-ax\' pluginspage=\'http://www.meadroid.com/neptune/download/\' width=\'100%\' height=\'100%\' param-location=\'http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/\'></embed></body></html>'); document.close(); })();

Shelumi`El
Jordan

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tianlian · Post by **tianlian** » March 21st, 2006, 1:16 pm

I realize this is a super old thread but I was wondering whether this same strategy can be used to solve the "Microsoft Fingerprinter Reader" issue...

Essentially, this device will not work on Firefox but works perfectly in IE...I tried the neptune plug-in with the JS that was posted above and the plug-in loaded correctly but it couldn't fool IE :-/

But will someone more wise than I, give it a look-to?

the-edmeister · Post by **the-edmeister** » March 21st, 2006, 5:37 pm

tianlian wrote:I realize this is a super old thread but I was wondering whether this same strategy can be used to solve the "Microsoft Fingerprinter Reader" issue...

Essentially, this device will not work on Firefox but works perfectly in IE...I tried the neptune plug-in with the JS that was posted above and the plug-in loaded correctly but it couldn't fool IE :-/

But will someone more wise than I, give it a look-to?

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1418289

Using FireBird on IE only sites??

ieview problem