Mozilla Active. X Plug in. To complement the Active. X control there is plug in project that shares many of the same files. This allows browsers and environments that support the Netscape Plug in Architecture to display Active. X controls. These include Mozilla 1. App_Themes/Theme1/images/PKISettings/SecuritySetting_2.bmp' alt='Please Install Activex Control Windows' title='Please Install Activex Control Windows' />Netscape Navigator 3. Netscape Communicator 4. Netscape 6. x, 7. Opera QT Toolkit for Windows via the QNPlugin NPAPI wrapper classesCode. Weavers Cross. Over Plug in. There have been previous plug ins for Netscape NavigatorCommunicator that host Active. X controls but most such as the NCompass plug in are defunct. This is the first open source implementation and also one of the lightest and fastest as well because it uses ATL rather than MFC. Should I use Active. X or XPConnect This plug in is not part of the Mozilla distribution and even if it were it would be disabled by default. It is extremely, hell freezing overly, unlikely that Mozilla is ever going to support Active. X by default. This plug in is designed for custom, legacy and intranet solutions and nothing else. If you want scripting in Mozilla then the use of XPConnect via the NPAPI is the only recommended method and strongly encouraged its actually a lot more powerful and tightly coupled to Mozilla e. DOM, cross platform support etc. Go here for more info. The Active. X plug in will always be a poor second best. Different build modes. The plug in may be built in a number of different ways to support different Mozilla and Netscape browsers. COM Connect Available as a build switch in the source from Mozilla 1. David Bradleys excellent COM connect layer. Repairing Cracked Rafters. This layer acts as a transparent bridge between the worlds of XPConnect and Active. X marshaling calls, data types and so on. It means that COM objects including Active. X controls can be scripted via their IDispatch interface in a similar fashion to IE. Builds must be explicitly enabled to support this mode and there is no backwards compatibility with other versions of Mozilla 1. Netscape 4. x, 6. The COM Connect build mode will be the preferred configuration going forward, with XPConnect Live. Connect support likely to be dropped. XPConnect Used by Mozilla and Netscape 6. Uses an XPConnect Type library XPT file to define the scriptable API to the browser. Live. Connect Used by Netscape Communicator 4. Please Install Activex Control Windows' title='Please Install Activex Control Windows' />Uses a Java class to define the scriptable API to the browser. No scripting No scripting technology. The plug in hosts controls but provides no way to script them. It is possible to build the plug in with both Live. Connect XPConnect enabled, but COM connect must be built by itself. Please dont bug me about sending you entire builds of Mozilla with COM connect enabled I dont have the time or resources to send out 1. The source is there if you want to try it yourselfThe Control Panel is a part the Microsoft Windows, in older versions, which allows users to view and manipulate basic system settings and controls via applets, such. Depending on your IE security settings, you may encounter these steps to download and install activex control in the client. See the instructions on the mozilla. You can also see the code online. First you need to build Mozilla so follow the instructions here to get a working environment and then read on. For COM Connect. Enabling this mode is easy, just add enable activex scripting to your mozconfig file, e. Build Mozilla as normal and COM connect, the npmozax. Ax. Security. Policy. By default Active. X is completely locked down, so read the section below on security to learn how to configure it. As noted, COM connect is an explicit build mode and results in a plug in that will only work with that specific build and is not backwards compatible. Otherwise. As the plug in is not built by default you must do the following cd mozillaembeddingbrowseractivexsrc. Please Install Activex Control Windows' title='Please Install Activex Control Windows' />Edit Makefile Makefile. DIRS line. Edit pluginMakefile. Makefile settings section below to see what to change. Type makeThis creates a plug in named npmozax. Netscape Communicator 4. Mozilla or Netscape 6. If you enabled XPConnect or Live. Connect are enabled you must also copy those files too. You should be able to run your browser and verify that the plug in is there by choosing HelpAbout Plug ins from the menu. To test it, try loading a page containing an Active. X control such as this one. Note 1 The Mozilla milestone and Netscape 6. Note 2 The 1. 0 branch still uses Dev. Important Message from Foscam Digital Technologies Regarding US Sales Service. Foscam. US aka Foscam Digital Technologies and now Amcrest Technologies is an. How to Install ActiveX CAB Files. Windows and other Microsoft applications use. Cab files as containers for ActiveX and other important installation files. If you have KimiCreator installed, it should start automatically. To use this feature, please install KimiCreator then click this button Start KimiCreator. Imagine if you will Youre in the middle of Canada with a sketchy internet connection and you desperately need to update your ShoreTel autoattendant for Labor Day. Studio nmake so you must edit makefile. Makefile. in on that branch. Makefile settings. The Makefile contains various settings to enable or disable XPConnect and Live. Connect support. If you want to disable both, ensure Enabling XPConnect. XPConnect is the scripting technology found in Mozilla 1. Ensure this line is uncommented. MOZACTIVEXPLUGINXPCONNECT 1. If MOZACTIVEXPLUGINXPCONNECT is not specified, the plug in will build without XPConnect support. When uncommented, the plug in will build with XPConnect support. The ns. IMoz. Ax. Plugin. idl provides the scripting interface through which the control may be scripted. The ns. IMoz. Ax. Plugin. IDL file and should be copied to plugins along with the npmozax. Enabling Live. Connect Live. Connect is the scripting technology used in Netscape 4. It is a little more involved to enable than XPConnect since you need to install the Netscape Plug in SDK for a special java stub generator and a Java SDK to compile Moz. Ax. Plugin. java into a class file. First off ensure this line is uncommented. MOZACTIVEXPLUGINLIVECONNECT 1. If MOZACTIVEXPLUGINLIVECONNECT is not specified, the plug in will build without Live. Connect support. Next install the Netscape Plug in SDK and an old Sun JDK and note the paths where you installed them. You need a pre Java 1. JDK to ensure the class file is compiled correctly, I recommend JDK 1. I use and is a comparatively small download. Now set these variables in the Makefile, making sure to specify paths with forward slashes. PLUGINSDK lt path to netscape plugin sdk, e. SDKJAVADIR lt path to jdk, e. The Makefile should then be set to compile the plug in with Live. Connect support. The Moz. Ax. Plugin. class file will be built and should be copied to plugins along with the npmozax. Pick the plugin that matches your browser. IMPORTANT Do not download the plugin if it does not exactly correspond with your browser version. If you ignore this advice, you may now have a broken browser. If you discover this to be the case or just get sick of the plugin, delete npmozax. Once installed, restart your browser and you should now be able to insert OBJECT tags into pages, download and install controls and do most of the other things you would expect. Demo pages. Here is a sample test page that demonstrates it hosting Windows Media Player and scripting it. Here is a Developers Edge article on Netscape. Windows Media Player Active. X control in Netscape 7. Some notes. A brief description of some things you should be aware of. This plugin has only been tested with certain versions of Mozilla and Firefox. It might work with other versions, but then again it might not. See the various COM connect sections in this document for general usage notes. The security policy for which controls are hosted, scripted, downloaded and install, blacklisting and whitelisting is controlled by the defaultsprefactivex. Edit this file and follow the instructions within to change how the plugin behaves. Control download and install works but has not been extensively tested. The plugin does not implement all of the weird and wacky things a control might expect if it were running in IE. Controls that expect to rewrite the DOM, or use weird binding are likely to fail. To create an object using Java. Script, use Gecko. Active. XObject instead of Active. XObject, e. g. var foo new Gecko.