For example, you can use Gecko’s powerful APIs which are implemented via XPCOM (COM-like) interfaces directly in your own code.Īnyone who has ever run Mozilla on Linux and experienced its lightning fast speed will find it hard to go back to ever using the very slow and often buggy Internet Explorer! I was able to compile the source code for both the first time I tried it with no problems whatsoever, and the binaries are available for those people who don’t want to bother compiling the source code.Īnyone who looks at the source code for the native Gecko API calls will see that there are much better ways of doing things than just Microsoft’s way. The source code is available free for both the ActiveX Control for Mozilla and Mozilla itself.

Let me point out that both Mozilla and the ActiveX Control for Mozilla are independent projects that are not associated with either Netscape or AOL. So, if you want a browser that you can use in your applications sans Microsoft, you should consider using the Mozilla Browser because the source code is available for free and it is very easy to compile and put in any MFC or ATL project. I have never liked Microsoft’s restrictive license agreement for Internet Explorer’s ActiveX Control, i.e., their WebBrowser ActiveX Control. It only works when the Web client is installed through the Web browser page.This article shows how to embed the ActiveX Control created by Adam Lock for the Mozilla Browser in CViews and Dialogs in MFC applications which can easily be extended for ATL applications as well. Note: The Firefox plug-in update feature does not work if you install the native Windows Client. Users who install the plug-in with Mozilla Firefox can update the plug-in through Firefox’s Add-on manager. If the user does not have sufficient rights to install browser add-ons (the user is running Internet Explorer and is not an administrator or power user), the client should be installed using the FH Web Edition Client Setup Program. If users have power-user rights, are running the ActiveX Control, and connect to a FH Web Edition server with an updated client, the ActiveX control updates automatically. The Web pages install and update the Web clients as long as the user has sufficient rights to install browser add-ons. If FH Web Edition was deployed through a Web browser’s Add-on manager, users should launch a Web browser to access a FH Web Edition Web server. You are here: Updating the ActiveX control and the plug-in

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