How to Enable ActiveX in Chrome

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I read that early builds of Chrome supported ActiveX  but was later restricted to certain MIME types  for support for say Windows Media Player    I then read Google was going to enable ActiveX strictly for the Korean market   How do I  re enable this in Chrome   Our web based product relies on ActiveX controls from 3rd parties to play custom video   This limits us to IE   We d love to support Chrome also  but find it impossible w o ActiveX support

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Chrome currently supports only a small subset of ActiveX components entirely on purpose, and it's never going to support them all, and especially lots of random 3rd party propriety ones.

Why?

Because ActiveX is a mess - it's a huge security hole and all the components can run at a higher security level than the browser.

That means that if you let in an ActiveX component it owns your PC - and while many are not malign most are resource hogs. Also if a malign site can't hack your browser it might still be able to hack one of its ActiveXs.

This is completely against Chrome's sandbox everything and wall off every tab approach - the reason why Chrome is by far the quickest, most secure and most stable browser is the same reason that it currently only supports Flash, Silverlight and one or two more.

However, it sounds like you're not really developing a web application anyway - your site in IE is basically a portal to downloading further ActiveX-based applications. Why worry about supporting anything that your DVR clients with their coding teams writing ActiveXs don't?

User · Answer

maybe this new Chrome extension helps   ActiveX for Chrome https   chrome google com extensions detail lgllffgicojgllpmdbemgglaponefajn

User · Answer

I m not an expert but it sounds to me that this is something you could only do if you built the browser yourself - ie  not something done in a web page  I m not sure that the sources for Chrome are publicly available  I think they are though   but the sources are what you d probably need to change for this

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This could be pretty ugly  but doesn t Chrome use the NPAPI for plugins like Safari  In that case  you could write a wrapper plugin with the NPAPI that made the appropriate ActiveX creation and calls to run the plugin  If you do a lot of scripting against those plugins  you might have to be a bit of work to proxy those calls through to the wrapped ActiveX control

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There is a proprietary plugin called  Neptune  which says that it will allow you to use IE Tab functionality in Chrome on Windows   Meadroid do this because they have ActiveX controls which they have written and they want them to be able to work in any browser  and they explicitly mention Chrome in the list of supported browsers for enabling ActiveX with this   There is also a modified version of Chrome  called ChromePlus  which includes IETab  among other extra features   I ve not used either of these personally  but they look like they ll do what you want   I d be interested to hear if they work out for you  as I know of other people who want to be able to use IEtab in Chrome

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I downloaded this  IE Tab Multi  from Chrome  It works good  http   iblogbox com chrome ietab alert php

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http   wiki answers com Q Does Google Chrome support ActiveX     Google Chrome comes with an ActiveX   shim  as part of its default plugin   array  So Google Chrome features at   least partial support for ActiveX   controls  as do many non-Internet   Explorer browsers   I can t find   information as to whether or not this   includes support for ActiveX security   certificates or the like  nor if where   such plugins can be controlled  within   the browser             Note that to enable the plug-in   you must run Chrome with the following   switch   --allow-all-activex  So in   shortcut that is used to start up   Chrome  add this after  Chrome exe

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anyone who says activex is less secure then NPAPI is crazy   They both allow the exact same access   Yes I ve written both   The only reason people think activeX is insecure is because 10  years ago IE had default settings that allowed a remote site to auto download the plugin

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