On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Mark Misulich
I have a client that, unfortunately, has a lot of services that just runs over InterNet Explorer. This services and applications uses Active-X.
I´d like to know, if is available some add-on as IE TAB for Linux Firefox.
If not, what can I use at OpenSuse Webrowser to run this applications ?
No other browser supports active-x besides ms-ie.
Try ie4linux
Or install a windows system on a vm.
Hi, I tried to install ie4linux on a 11.x version of openSuse a couple of years ago, after using it successfully on 10.x versions. It wouldn't install, so I referred the problem to this mailing list. The response was that ie4linux is old technology and won't work on the current versions of opensuse.
There are a couple of options (some already mentioned): - Install VMWare Player or VirtualBox, and run a full Windows environment in the virtual machine - Use Crossover (from Codeweavers). IE6 works.. mostly although it's not good enough for real everyday use). IE7 kind of works, but it's crashy. Anything more recent is pretty much a washout. - Use Wine. Same issues as with Crossover. Up to IE6 it mostly works. Anything beyond that either crashes constantly or won't install/launch (take a look at the winhq entries for Internet Explorer - most versions are rated "Garbage"). - Redevelop the web appliction to actually use web standards instead of the Active-X stuff. Your most reliable option if your client has a must-use Active-X application that only works in IE, is to go the virtual machine route (assuming the Active-X app cannot be updated to a standards compliant webapp). A few points if you go this route: - You must install and configure a licensed copy of Windows on each Linux computer that will be used to access this Active-X webapp or you must set up a virtual machine server that your client can use to launch a VM Windows session from each time they require IE. - You can set up the VM to use "Seamless Mode"so that IE appears to be running natively in Linux. - If you run the VM locally instead of on a VM Server, each host PC must have enough RAM to boot and run the VM with reasonable speed/responsiveness. Generally I'd suggest a minimum of 4GB with 1GB dedicated to a single VM instance. C. -- openSUSE 12.2 x86_64, KDE 4.9.4 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org