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LiquidCode
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 Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:01 pm Post subject: Browser Element - Firefox or Chrome? |
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Does anyone know of a way to use Firefox or Chrome engine for a browser element instead of IE?
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There used to be an ActiveX control for Mozilla that I have used in the past however it was not advanced enough at the time to use it for any kind of production use. It was missing a lot of things that the IE browser control has. That is why I never bothered to finish the Mozilla browser control for VDS. If I get enough interest I will finish the Mozilla browser control for VDS. Also the control requires you to install a version of the Mozilla browser about 5MB of files which is packaged with the ActiveX control. I don't know if that would appeal to many here.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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True. Installing an extra 5MB would not be appealing.
Thanks for the info!
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Is there anyway for us to put together a zip file of only the needed files for the ActiveX component to work? Instead of needing to install a related browser.
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| Garrett wrote: | | Is there anyway for us to put together a zip file of only the needed files for the ActiveX component to work? Instead of needing to install a related browser. |
yes there is... It comes as a package and it is all self contained in a single directory so it is not hard to re-package it. However there are other issues with the AcitveX control and the big one is the fact that it is still using Mozilla 1.5 code base. I may be able to update it to the current but it would take a lot of work and many weeks/months to do it.
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Then I say no to it. I just don't see a large enough audience here anymore for such a thing and I'd really hate to see you put in so much time and effort for so little usage of the end result.
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Funny to see this topic. I have just been dealing with recently. I wish there was a Firefox browser element, but it sounds like quite an investment of time to create.
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