Activex on linux firefox

Activex on linux firefox

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№1 03-03-2006 00:34:14

ActiveX в FireFox (ОС Linux)

Подскажите, где достать ActiveX плугин для FireFox в ОС Linux plz

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№2 03-03-2006 07:13:11

Re: ActiveX в FireFox (ОС Linux)

Я думаю, что это невозможно . Может Вам Wine поможет.

Отредактировано ru-vadik (03-03-2006 07:16:50)

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№3 03-03-2006 22:59:15

Re: ActiveX в FireFox (ОС Linux)

ActiveX насколько я понимаю это практически те же dll
А в Линуксе такого формата, естественно, нет.

Wine — так придется Лиса виндовского целиком через него запускать. Не думаю, что это добавит скорости и стабильности. Если вообще запустится.

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№4 03-03-2006 23:11:44

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INFOMAN
Запускается. У меня работает довольно быстро и стабильно.

№5 04-03-2006 04:44:48

Re: ActiveX в FireFox (ОС Linux)

А если сравнить с родной линуксовой версией, насколько отличается скорость?

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№6 04-03-2006 11:51:51

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Практически не отличается. Celeron 2.0, 256 Mb.

№7 26-05-2006 14:42:24

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При регистрации на WebMany Firefox 1.5.0.3 не загружает ActiveX и в настройках про это вообще не сказанно, по этой причине работать с WebMany через него нельзя, как быть?

№8 26-05-2006 14:57:24

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№9 26-05-2006 14:58:03

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ActiveX для Firefox

Как включить ActiveX в Firefox? Это не так-то просто. Но иногда поддержка данного компонента просто необходима. Дело в том, что по умолчанию Mozilla Firefox не поддерживает сей компонент. Придется устанавливать сторонний плагин. Только так поддержку можно будет включить. Но сначала немного о самой технологии.

Что такое ActiveX и зачем оно нужно

ActiveX – это элементы управления веб-контентом, созданные компанией Microsoft исключительно для их веб-обозревателя Internet Explorer. Именно поэтому они и не поддерживаются другими браузерами. Хотя они необходимы для правильного отображения некоторого контента.

Кстати, этим также можно объяснить популярность убогого Internet Explorer в государственных учреждениях. Другие веб-обозреватель просто не могут нормально работать с необходимыми сайтами по причине отсутствия поддержки ActiveX.

Только благодаря этому факту Explorer кое-как держится на плаву. Однако теперь можно заставить альтернативные браузеры нормально работать с элементами ActiveX. Правда, для этого придется установить кое-что.

Включение ActiveX в Firefox

Вообще, по сути, в последних версиях Firefox включить эту штуку не представляется возможным. Но есть альтернативный вариант. Можно установить расширение Open in IE. Оно позволяет немедленно открыть нужную ссылку в Internet Explorer. А в нем-то ActiveX имеется.

Конечно, решение не совсем удобное. Но что делать, если ничего другого предложить нельзя? Только воспользоваться этим вариантом. Мы предоставим подробную инструкцию, рассказывающую о том, как и что нужно делать.

1. Сначала запускаем браузер. Далее в правом верхнем углу главного окна ищем кнопку с тремя горизонтальными полосками и кликаем по ней. Затем появится контекстное меню. В нем щелкаем по пункту «Дополнения».
2. Откроется страница с плагинами. В строке поиска вводим «Open in IE» и жмем на кнопку Enter .
3. В результатах кликаем по нужному расширению.
4. Теперь остается только нажать на кнопку «Добавить в Firefox» и подтвердить действие при помощи соответствующей кнопки.

Вот и все. Теперь нужно открыть страницу в Firefox, а затем просто кликнуть по иконке расширения в панели инструментов. Такая же страница тут же будет открыта в Internet Explorer. Только так можно решить проблему на данный момент.

Заключение

А теперь пришло время подвести итоги, обобщить всю полученную информацию и сделать соответствующие выводы. В рамках данного материала мы поговорили о том, как можно включить поддержку технологии ActiveX в Firefox.

Оказалось, что это практически невозможно. Но можно заставить браузер открывать необходимые ссылки в Internet Explorer. Для этого есть специальное расширение, которое можно без проблем найти в интернет-магазине Mozilla. Соответствующая инструкция прилагается.

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Is there anyway to install/load Active X on a Ubuntu/Firefox workstation ?

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there’s no practical way of getting a technology to work with linux/firefox that was purposely built for windows/internet explorer.

I just remembered that several years ago somebody wrote a plugin for firefox 1 or 2 that would provide basic active x functionality but would still require firefox to be run on windows I believe.

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Re: Active X on Ubuntu/firefox

there’s no practical way of getting a technology to work with linux/firefox that was purposely built for windows/internet explorer.

I just remembered that several years ago somebody wrote a plugin for firefox 1 or 2 that would provide basic active x functionality but would still require firefox to be run on windows I believe.

The listed link / web page info is outdated.

It says something about reporting websites that do not work under Firefox by going to the HELP menu on Firefox but the function that is listed is NOT found under HELP on Firefox, or at least it is not under the version that I am using.

Re: Active X on Ubuntu/firefox

the site states:

Firefox does not support ActiveX technology for multiple reasons.

* ActiveX is only available on Windows operating systems, and as a result webpages that require it will not work on Linux or Mac.
* ActiveX integration with the Windows operating system has made it a target for malicious software.

the basic nature of the technology hasn’t changed ever since active x was introduced, so the above still applies.

it’s possible to write a firefox plugin to run active x, but this would still require firefox to be run under a windows os.

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Does Firefox have something similar to ActiveX in terms of security vulnerabilities?

People always say that Linux is more secure than Windows. The main reason seems to be the general system design philosophy and the fact that users are users and not root.

One main security concern when using Windows and Internet Explorer seem to be ActiveX. Every few days I read about another kind of exploit using ActiveX, and almost always the workaround is to deactivate ActiveX. I read that so often I wonder why people bother to activate ActiveX at all. (One reason might be that the name contains «active»; another might be the windows update function.)

Using Ubuntu and Firefox, I always feel so safe when reading about the ActiveX exploits. I know that there are many other security vulnerabilities that use JavaScript and/or Adobe Flash, but as far as I understand those kind of security vulnerabilities can only do as much damage as my user rights allow. Of course that doesn’t help much when the malware wants to destroy all of my data — but most malware today only wants to use my PC as a botnet drone and so is not interested in destroying my data.

So the question again: does Firefox running under Ubuntu have something similar to ActiveX, in terms of security vulnerabilities?

Another question which may be identical: can a security vulnerability involving Adobe Flash and/or JavaScript be «easily» exploited to do as much damage as an ActiveX exploit?

When I say «easy» I mean that the attack does not need to exploit another component of the system to elevate user rights. For example, an exploit involving Adobe Flash will gain access to my PC using my user rights, and then proceed to exploit some known vulnerability in X to gain root access. That is not «easy».

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does firefox under ubuntu has something similar to activeX, in terms of security vulnerability?

‘ActiveX’ can be considered in two parts, the object model and the installation method. Firefox has something similar—and cross-platform compatible, Ubuntu or other—for both.

The object model of ActiveX is Microsoft COM; Firefox’s equivalent is XPCOM. Many other Windows features and applications that are nothing to do with web browsing use MS COM, and there have traditionally been endless problems where COM controls that were not written for secure web usage were nonetheless available to web pages. This caused many compromises. Firefox is better off here as XPCOM is not shared with the rest of the system. Newer versions of IE have better controls for mitigating what sites are allowed to use what controls.

(As a side-issue, because many add-ons for Firefox are themselves written in JavaScript, a high-level scripting language, they are often more secure from buffer overflow and string handling errors than extensions for IE which are commonly written in C[++].)

The control-downloader part of ActiveX has also been cleaned up a bit since the bad old days when anything in the My Computer zone could install any software it liked, and aggressive loader scripts could trap you in an alert loop until you agreed to approve the ActiveX prompt. Firefox’s equivalent, XPInstall, behaves largely similarly, with the ‘information bar’ on all but Mozilla’s sites by default and a suitable warning/prompt before installation.

There is another built-in way you can compromise yourself in Mozilla: signed scripts. I have never seen this actually used, and certainly there’ll be another warning window appear before a script gains extra rights, but it kind of worries me that this is available to web pages at all.

for example an exploit through flash will gain access to my pc under my user rights

Yes, the majority of web exploits today occur in plugins. Adobe Reader, Java(*) and QuickTime are the most popular/vulnerable. IMO: get rid of those, and use FlashBlock to only show Flash when you want it.

(*: and Java’s dialogues before it lets you give up all security to some untrusted applet is a bit bare too.)

Ubuntu gives you some questionable plugins by default, in particular a media player plugin that will make every vulnerability in any of your media codecs exploitable through the web (similar to the Windows Media Player plugin, only potentially with many more formats). Whilst I have yet to meet an exploit targeting Linux like this, that’s really only security through obscurity.

Note that ActiveX itself is no different. A web browser compromise based on ActiveX still only gives user-level access; it’s only because prior to Vista everyone habitually ran everything as Administrator that this escalated to a full-on rooting.

and then follow to exploit some known vulnerability in X to gain root rights. that is not «easy».

Maybe, maybe not. But I think you’ll find the damage some malware can do from even a normal user account is quite bad enough. Copy all your personal data, observe your keypresses, delete all your documents.

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From MozillaZine Knowledge Base

The Mozilla ActiveX plugin is obsolete and can cause crashes or other problems in Firefox and SeaMonkey. It was added to the Mozilla Blocklist on June 7, 2012. [1]

ActiveX is the system Internet Explorer uses in place of the NPAPI system that all other browsers use to embed other applications inside themselves. Some sites explicitly specify the use of an ActiveX control (generally, for Windows Media Player) and will not render in a browser without ActiveX support. For this reason, a third-party ActiveX plugin that adds partial ActiveX support to some Mozilla-based browsers has been created.

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Installing the ActiveX plugin on Windows

An ActiveX plugin version for Firefox 2 and above is not currently available. You should not install a different version and you should remove the ActiveX plugin if the wrong version is already installed.

• Install the correct version of the Mozilla ActiveX plugin from here.
  • Firefox 1.5.0.x: Install the plug-in for Firefox 1.5.
  • All other Firefox releases: Install the plug-in for your specific version of Firefox.
  • Seamonkey 1.0: Install the plug-in for Firefox 1.5.[2].
• Restart the browser.

Warnings

• If you use the Adblock extension, you may need to disable the Obj-Tabs setting, depending on your browser version. Otherwise, the ActiveX plugin will run almost any ActiveX control regardless of how it is configured. This issue is fixed in current Mozilla browsers (see bug 340852 for details).
• For some versions of the ActiveX plugin, the Flash plugin will not load unless it was already loaded after you install the ActiveX plugin. You will need to reload the plugins by typing about:plugins into your Location Bar upon starting Firefox.
• If you later update your browser, the ActiveX plugin will likely remain installed and it may not be compatible with the new browser version. You should uninstall the ActiveX plugin before upgrading your browser or remove it if it is already installed, unless it is known to work with the next version.

Uninstalling the ActiveX plugin on Windows

• Close all instances of your browser.
• Go to the installation directory (e.g., C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox).
• Go into the «plugins» folder and delete the file «npmozax.dll».
• Go back to the installation directory, and then go into the «components» folder, and delete the files «nsIMozAxPlugin.xpt» and «nsAxSecurityPolicy.js».
• Go back to the installation directory, open the «defaults» folder, then open the «pref» folder and delete the file «activex.js».

Linux (x86)

Recent versions of CrossOver Office ship with the Mozilla ActiveX plugin, but don’t expect it to work as well as it would on Windows.

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