Hi,

The security policy in FireFox 3 has changed: it does not support .jar
installation with install.js scripts as with FireFox 2.

For installing the Esker ActiveX Plug-in (np7esk32.dll) on FireFox 3, we
recomand going to addons.mozila.org site and search for "np7esk32".
While the Esker ActiveX Plug-in is not yet classified as "public", you need to
login to the site before downloading it (suscribtion is strait forward and
free).
The last thing that is not as automatic as for FireFox 2, is that you need to
restart FireFox 3 after installing the Esker ActiveX Plug-in in order to use it.
To check that the Esker ActiveX Plug-in is actually installed, type
"about:plugins" in FireFox URL bar and look for "Esker ActiveX Plug-in" version
7.95.

Now for installing your ActiveX, pacakging a signed .jar archive is not
supported either. This leaves the following options:
- for simple ActiveX (a single .ocx or .dll file that only requires registration
using regsvr32): in the EMBED tag of your ActiveX, specify the URL of the .ocx
or .dll file which needs to be a trusted URL (either an https URL or an URL in
the same domain as the client).
- for a complex ActiveX (packaged as a .cab file for IE): you need to write a
special .dpl file (see DPL specification documentation) and specify its URL in
the EMBED tag of the ActiveX. Again, this URL needs to be trusted.
- In any case, you can install your ActiveX by hand (typically using regsvr32)
or using IE (to test that the ActiveX works). Note that your ActiveX must be
marked as safe for scripting and/or initializing if parameters or scripts are
required.

Here are general advises:
- please, remember that the OBJECT tag of the ActiveX must be replaced by an
EMBED tag.
- you can activate the Esker ActiveX Plug-in log file to locate the problem.
- you can find help in the "Files" section of the Esker ActiveX Plug-in group
home page.

Nicolas Roumiantzeff



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[mailto:esker-activex-plugin@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of s_sambassador
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 8:09 PM
To: esker-activex-plugin@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Esker ActiveX Plug-in] Manually registering an ActiveX Plugin



Hi all,

We're trying to get an ActiveX plugin to work on Firefox 3 using
np7esk32. The problem is that it doesn't seem to want to install...
we go to the site that (normally) would prompt us to install the
control (in IE) but it just tells us that the activex plugin isn't
installed, reload the page and click "yes" when the prompt comes on
(as it happens in IE).

We've tried registering the control with regsvr32 to no avail. Is
there a place to put the .ocx file so that it will be detected?

Thanks!