Remove ActiveX from LibreOffice

[Mark Hung]

;-( .. Oh, I provide the wrong information again.

I mean the file didn't open if LibreOffice is installed with both Explorer
Extension and Active X disabled.


2016-01-01 14:53 GMT+08:00 Mark Hung <marklh9 at gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> I lost my memory and messed tdf#90386 with another thing.
> It didn't seem to work properly since IE8 / LO4.2.2, though I did try to
> fix it.
>
>
>
> 2016-01-01 12:17 GMT+08:00 Chris Sherlock <chris.sherlock79 at gmail.com>:
>
>> Unless I'm much mistaken, the ActiveX control does almost exactly the
>> same thing that the browser plugin did for Netscape.
>>
>> Given that in Edge Microsoft will not be supporting ActiveX plugins any
>> more, isn't the justification for removing the ActiveX control the same as
>> for remove the NSAPI plugin?
>>
>> Incidentally, in the bug references, if I had to hazard a guess, the ocx
>> needs to be registered manually.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 3:13 AM, Thorsten Behrens <
>> thb at documentfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Mark Hung wrote:
>>> > A valid use case is to read the uploaded documents on SharePoint
>>> server in
>>> > intranet.
>>> > Eventually it obsoletes, but I prefer to consider this when facing some
>>> > directly related event.
>>> >  ( i.e EOL of Windows7, new toolchain ceasing ActiveX support, or
>>> security
>>> > issue which lacks of engineer resource ) .
>>> >
>>> Yeah. Unless this is not working anywhere anymore, let's keep it for
>>> the while - seems it's useful at least in some cases. And the cost of
>>> maintaining it is currently near zero, no?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> -- Thorsten
>>>
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>>
>
>
> --
> Mark Hung
>



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Mark Hung
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