P.S. given that LO is crashing due to the ActiveX control borking, that bug still needs troubleshooting.
Mark, can you provide us with a backtrace when soffice dies, then add it to the TDF bug report? Chris On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Chris Sherlock <chris.sherloc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unless I'm much mistaken, the ActiveX control does almost exactly the same > thing that the browser plugin did for Netscape. > > Given that in Edge Microsoft will not be supporting ActiveX plugins any > more, isn't the justification for removing the ActiveX control the same as > for remove the NSAPI plugin? > > Incidentally, in the bug references, if I had to hazard a guess, the ocx > needs to be registered manually. > > Chris > > On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 3:13 AM, Thorsten Behrens < > t...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > >> Mark Hung wrote: >> > A valid use case is to read the uploaded documents on SharePoint server >> in >> > intranet. >> > Eventually it obsoletes, but I prefer to consider this when facing some >> > directly related event. >> > ( i.e EOL of Windows7, new toolchain ceasing ActiveX support, or >> security >> > issue which lacks of engineer resource ) . >> > >> Yeah. Unless this is not working anywhere anymore, let's keep it for >> the while - seems it's useful at least in some cases. And the cost of >> maintaining it is currently near zero, no? >> >> Cheers, >> >> -- Thorsten >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LibreOffice mailing list >> LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice >> >> >
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