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ActiveX is a deprecated software framework created by Microsoft that adapts its earlier Component Object Model (COM) and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technologies for content downloaded from a network, particularly from the World Wide Web. [ 1] Microsoft introduced ActiveX in 1996. In principle, ActiveX is not dependent on Microsoft ...
An ActiveX control that hosts plugins – a replacement for plugin.ocx that was removed from Internet Explorer. Book on Programming Netscape Plug-Ins by Zan Oliphant; Nixysa: A glue code generation framework for NPAPI plugins. Apache 2.0 license. NPAPI Tutorial Building a Firefox Plugin (Part two, Part three, Part four) Opera 15+ extensions ...
Adobe Flash Player. Adobe Flash Player (known in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome as Shockwave Flash) [ 10] is a discontinued [ note 1] computer program for viewing multimedia content, executing rich Internet applications, and streaming audio and video content created on the Adobe Flash platform. It can run from a web browser as a ...
As of 2011, the current version of Moonlight (4 Preview 1) does not officially work on new versions of Firefox (newer than 3.x) on Linux-based operating systems. However, it can be installed in an unofficial way (for example using the Add-on Compatibility Reporter Archived May 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine add-on) and with Firefox 11 it works ...
ActiveX Document (also known as DocObject or DocObj) is a Microsoft technology that allows users to view and edit Microsoft Word, Excel, and PDF documents inside web browsers. It defines a set of Component Object Model coding contracts between hosting programs like Internet Explorer or Microsoft Office Binder [3] and hosted documents from ...
Browser Helper Object. A Browser Helper Object ( BHO) is a DLL module designed as a plugin for the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser to provide added functionality. BHOs were introduced in October 1997 with the release of version 4 of Internet Explorer. Most BHOs are loaded once by each new instance of Internet Explorer.
Browser extension. A browser extension is a software module for customizing a web browser. Browsers typically allow users to install a variety of extensions, including user interface modifications, cookie management, ad blocking, and the custom scripting and styling of web pages. [ 1]
Browser security. Browser security is the application of Internet security to web browsers in order to protect networked data and computer systems from breaches of privacy or malware. Security exploits of browsers often use JavaScript, sometimes with cross-site scripting (XSS) [ 1] with a secondary payload using Adobe Flash. [ 2]