Remove ActiveX from LibreOffice

Bryan Quigley gquigs at gmail.com
Wed Dec 30 12:02:53 PST 2015


Hi there,

Recently it was decided to remove the rest of NPAPI support [1] which
got me thinking about the other Windows specific plugin tech -
ActiveX.

It seems ActiveX is very much no longer recommended by Microsoft and
it seems to not work by default for IE10/11 on Windows 7 and up.  Any
objections to removing?

AFAICT this would just be removing embedding LO into IE.

Kind regards,
Bryan

[1] https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/20658/  and ESC discussion
here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2015-December/071504.html
[2] https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/05/06/a-break-from-the-past-part-2-saying-goodbye-to-activex-vbscript-attachevent/


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