Does Firefox support ActiveX?

[tseelee]

Mind you, I'm not really sure what ActiveX, but I know there was an attempt to build support for it in Firefox, leading to a side project for one of the mozilla developers. Anyway, I noticed that McAfee wanted to install an ActiveX plugin on my Firefox (so it can update its software). Does that mean Firefox now supports it, or am I missing something?

[Racer]

There is an unsupported ActiveX plugin for Firefox that will allow some ActiveX programs to run.

[tseelee]

There is an unsupported ActiveX plugin for Firefox that will allow some ActiveX programs to run.

Yes, that's the side project I was alluding to. I didn't have to install it for McAfee's to work, though.

[rtmjr50]

There is an unsupported ActiveX plugin for Firefox that will allow some ActiveX programs to run.

Yes, that's the side project I was alluding to. I didn't have to install it for McAfee's to work, though.

Activex plugin for WMP 9/10 only works with WMP. Mcaffee needs activex which Firefox does not
support. The reason you are getting the error message is that Mcaffee is trying to use your default browser. Mcaffee will not work in Firefox ... you need to be using IE (it supports activex).

I am surprise that it does not do this automaticly.

later, Rchard

[Racer]

The ActiveX plugin supports a number of ActiveX controls. You just have to enable them since the only CLSID supported "out of the box" is WMP.

[tseelee]

Mcaffee needs activex which Firefox does not support.

I don't know if my limited knowledge is confusing the discussion. McAfee ended up installing the ActiveX plugin for my "Netscape" browser, and now it can fetch new updates.

[old Ol Grumpy]

McAfee is probably recognizing your browser as "Netscape" because of the Gecko engine base.
Some of the sites I visit recognize Firefox as Netscape or setup a parameter like I'm running Netscape even though it's the Fox. Best guess.
There's also the possibility they only recognize IE, Mac and Netscape and haven't set up for a specific Firefox notation in the update site and they use Netscape" as a catch all instead of "Other."

[dickvl]

That name is in "navigator.appName": Netscape.
You can check that in the Error Console (Evaluate)

[old FatJohn]

Makes me wonder what controls does the mcafee plugin accept. Care to try http://members.aol.com/jrzycrim01/mozil ... xtest.html

(That's a media activex test page made by a mozillazine regular so I guess it's safe)

[tseelee]

Makes me wonder what controls does the mcafee plugin accept.

I'm guessing it only accepts its own update routines. Failed both tests.