ie7 activeX
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clauswilson
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ie7 activeX
I installed ie7 in 1.1.44 on ubuntu 10.04 no problem quick and smooth. It runs fine but my bank needs activeX components and whatever setting I do ie7 won't install the activeX components. Any suggestions?
Re: ie7 activeX
Find bank that doesn't require most insecure browser in the world.clauswilson wrote:Any suggestions?
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clauswilson
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ie7 activeX
On 2010-05-14 (May, Friday) 09:20:10 clauswilson wrote:
And yes, I have experience with some banks that support IE only (hint:
"IE only" politics usually just one of many other problems with such banks).
Any bank who cares about stability, security and usability will not use ActiveX
and should support popular browsers, at least Firefox. If for some reason you
really have to work with a bank that doesn't care about you as a customer and
ignores your important requests (for example, full support for multiplatform
browser) and forces you to use something you can't use easily or safely like
ActiveX, IE, etc. you can use VirtualBox or VMWare (of course you have to have
Windows in this case and waste you memory and disk space, and CPU cycles just
for that "bank" and its ignorant policies).
Wine never was 100% perfect with IE of any version because of two reasons:
most users don't care about IE for obvious reasons including insecurity, and IE
uses a lot of API that many other applications don't need. For these reasons
IE support improves slowly. If you think you one of a people who cares about IE
support in Wine and want to help (both Wine project and other people who need
better IE support in Wine) - send patches or at least non-duplicate bug
reports.
I do (but I will suggest you a solution anyway at the end of this paragraph).Who thinks this is an answer to my question?
And yes, I have experience with some banks that support IE only (hint:
"IE only" politics usually just one of many other problems with such banks).
Any bank who cares about stability, security and usability will not use ActiveX
and should support popular browsers, at least Firefox. If for some reason you
really have to work with a bank that doesn't care about you as a customer and
ignores your important requests (for example, full support for multiplatform
browser) and forces you to use something you can't use easily or safely like
ActiveX, IE, etc. you can use VirtualBox or VMWare (of course you have to have
Windows in this case and waste you memory and disk space, and CPU cycles just
for that "bank" and its ignorant policies).
Wine never was 100% perfect with IE of any version because of two reasons:
most users don't care about IE for obvious reasons including insecurity, and IE
uses a lot of API that many other applications don't need. For these reasons
IE support improves slowly. If you think you one of a people who cares about IE
support in Wine and want to help (both Wine project and other people who need
better IE support in Wine) - send patches or at least non-duplicate bug
reports.
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clauswilson
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Thank you very much for your answer. That was a help!
(As far as I know banks can be accessed via a digital signature in a few months. That might even solve the activeX problem. It is not present in ie6 with ie4linux but I am just trying to see if it will work with ie7 and plain wine)
Anyway wine is a very nice project. And for me at least has been a great help. (Bank and now as the latest version also note writing software.)
(As far as I know banks can be accessed via a digital signature in a few months. That might even solve the activeX problem. It is not present in ie6 with ie4linux but I am just trying to see if it will work with ie7 and plain wine)
Anyway wine is a very nice project. And for me at least has been a great help. (Bank and now as the latest version also note writing software.)
