I'm are also facing the same problem. I have an ActiveX DLL and I'm
struggling to make it work from Mozilla.

If you come across a solution please do let me know. As far as "David
Bradley's excellent COM connect layer", I too had no luck of finding it...



Hoagiebot wrote:
> 
> I was reading Adam Lock's documentation for his ActiveX Host Plugin for
> Mozilla based browsers (which can be found on his website here:
> http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm) and saw that in a few places
> he
> mentioned something about a "COM Connect Layer" that was written by a
> developer named David Bradley.  Here is a quote from the above mentioned
> documentation:
> 
> ***************
> COM Connect:
> Available as a build switch in the source from Mozilla 1.3 up that takes
> advantage of David Bradley's excellent COM connect layer. This layer acts
> as
> a transparent bridge between the worlds of XPConnect and ActiveX
> marshaling
> calls, data types and so on. It means that COM objects (including ActiveX
> controls) can be scripted via their IDispatch interface in a similar
> fashion
> to IE. Builds must be explicitly enabled to support this mode and there is
> no backwards compatibility with other versions of Mozilla 1.x or Netscape
> 4.x, 6.x or 7.x.
> The COM Connect build mode will be the preferred configuration going
> forward, with XPConnect & LiveConnect support likely to be dropped.
> ***************
> 
> I have been trying to get some Microsoft COM-based components to work with
> Firefox recently, and as a result I find this mentioning of a COM Connect
> layer in Mozilla to be very very interesting.  As a result, I was
> wondering
> if anyone knows where I can find David Bradley's COM connect layer code in
> the Mozilla Firefox source code tree and if there is any documentation
> available that explains how it works or how to use it either on the
> Mozilla.org website or elsewhere.  I would greatly appreciate any
> information that you can provide for me, and I will be looking forward to
> hearing back from you.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Hoagiebot
> 
> 
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