Get FireFox To Load/Use ActiveX?

[JohnVM]

I'm a big supporter of internet security and a hater of all things M$, but unfortunately one of my clients uses MSN Investor for his stock market portfolio (he has over 1,000 stocks all setup there) and it uses ActiveX.

IE is just too crappy now to handle such a bloated portfolio and IE is just in general insecure, so I want to move him over to FireFox. I know and love FireFox for not having ActiveX support, but for this one site it really needs it (leave it to MS to make their site broken with all non-IE browsers).

Has anyone developed any plugins or stuff that allow FireFox to work with ActiveX? I managed to find http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm from my trusty friend google, but when I install the extension nothing happens (I've restarted and re-installed numerous times, doesn't actually seem to install) and I'm not entirely sure it's exactly what I'm looking for.

I only need AX on this one site (investor.msn.com). Any help would be hot. Thanks in advance.

 

[XBoxLPU]

Just use IE for that site 😕

It is not like you can really remove IE in the first place.

Install the IEView extension

 

[JohnVM]

unfortunately IE is so poorly that with his massive list he's getting performance problems, which is another reason for the switch

FireFox always outperforms IE from my experience so I was hoping it might be able to solve those -- therefore the View With IE isn't the end-all solution here

 

[imthebadguy]

Originally posted by: XBoxLPU
Just use IE for that site 😕

It is not like you can really remove IE in the first place.

Install the IEView extension

yeah this is what i do, but when ffx whenever i come across a page that is messing up, i immediately suspect the browser and fire up ie when the problem usually lies in the page itsself

 

[XBoxLPU]

You need to edit the activex.js

http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows1.html#ActiveX