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Mozilla 1.4 Alpha To Have ActiveX Support

Posted by timothy on from the march-hijinx-before-april-fools dept.

quakeslut writes "According to the newly posted Mozilla Staff Minutes, Moz is set to have initial ActiveX support for the next alpha. ActiveX... be afraid... be very afraid."

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  1. Re:For Non-Windows Systems Too? by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Please provide references to back up your assumption that ActiveX has become more secure over the last 6.5 years. It still allows the execution of any program on your machine, including a program downloaded without your knowledge -- that's the point of ActiveX. It is, by design, insecure. Java, on the other hand, at lease runs in a "sandbox" within your browser, and while potentially dangerous it's not as potentially dangerous as ActiveX.

    I allow neither Java nor ActiveX and I'm able to surf the Web just fine. I don't see why Mozilla thinks they need it, and they'd damn well better give us a way to disable it.

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    If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
  2. Wrong. by pmsyyz · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you build Mozilla yourself you can enable Active X support. This has been around for quite a while. But Mozilla.org builds will never have it enabled by default.

    Plug-in For Hosting ActiveX Controls http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm

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    Phillip
  3. Re:For Non-Windows Systems Too? by gmuslera · · Score: 2, Interesting

    More funny than this is that Microsoft recommends to not trust ActiveX controls signed by them. So now you can't trust unsigned and signed ActiveX controls.