What has been reported is that on Wednesday, Microsoft said it would modify Internet Explorer to change the way the browser handles ActiveX controls to rich content.

According to sources close to the project, ActiveX filtering will be a part of the Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate. According to WinRumors: “The filter will allow users to control what ...

Disabling Active Scripting and ActiveX controls makes IE safer for browsing the Web. While Internet Explorer has had more than its fair share of security problems, it remains the most popular Web ...

The only obvious mention of ActiveX Filtering is in User Config\Admin Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer > "Turn on ActiveX Filtering," and this has an incorrect description.

So, what are Active X controls? Like we have web extensions and plug-ins for Chrome browser, the Active X controls are the Internet Explorer’s version of plug-ins.

How to Reinstall Active X. ActiveX is a Microsoft technology that works with Internet Explorer to deliver special functionality, like animations or toolbars, to your browser experience. Internet ...

Windows 10 will ship with a new web browser called Microsoft Edge. PC users will still be able to use Internet Explorer, but Microsoft is really pushing its new browser which features a new ...

In Interent Explorer 6 SP1b, the behavior of Internet Explorer has changed for certain Microsoft ActiveX controls. Internet Explorer 6 SP1b prompts the user to determine whether a control is ...

Embedding Windows Media player in a Web page can be challenging. Now, the Mozilla/Netscape team has built ActiveX support for Windows Media directly into their latest browsers. Here's how to sniff for ...

LAS VEGAS -Conspicuously absent from Microsoft’s annual MIX conference here was any discussion by the software giant about whether it plans to change the way ActiveX will run in Internet Explorer 8.

Microsoft Corp. today issued “kill bit” updates for ActiveX controls from HP and a Washington state developer, the third time it’s disabled third-party add-ons in the last four months. One ...

The Windows Media Player 7/9 has a rich set of control functions that can be called from Javascript in the Web page. Calling these from Javascript is the same whether you're in Mozilla or Internet ...