IE7 Annoyance
If you visit this blog with IE7, you’ll get a topbar thing that tells you that the site wants to run the “Windows Media Player Extender” ActiveX control.
Since I did no such thing, I have no idea what is causing this. Of course I could voodoo debug the site and disable everything one by one until the culprit reveals itself, but I’d rather have you, dear readers (especially you webdevs out there) tell me what the problem is.
Prize for the winner. Well, maybe not, but you’ll get my thanks anyhow :-)
0 TrackBacks
Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: IE7 Annoyance.
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.steve-lacey.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-bar.cgi/936
7 Comments
Leave a comment
About Me
Steve Lacey, software developer at Google, British, married to the lurvely Nabila, dad to the wonderful Julian and Jasmine. Living in Kirkland (near Seattle), WA.
steve@steve-lacey.com
+1 425 466 9305
Syndication
Popular Posts
Recent Entries
Recent Podcasts
- A Brit Abroad - April 16, 2006
- G'Day World!
- A Brit Abroad - November 26, 2005
- A Brit Abroad - October 13, 2005
- A Brit Abroad - September 20, 2005
- The First Britcaster Podcaster
- BritPack number 4 is alive!
- A Brit Abroad - August 15, 2005
- A Brit Abroad - July 13, 2005
- The BritPack #2 - The Very Best Of British Podcasting
- Subscribe...
Monthly Archives
- July 2008 (5)
- June 2008 (4)
- May 2008 (12)
- April 2008 (16)
- March 2008 (4)
- February 2008 (7)
- January 2008 (11)
- December 2007 (8)
- November 2007 (15)
- October 2007 (8)
- September 2007 (8)
- August 2007 (19)
- July 2007 (9)
- June 2007 (10)
- May 2007 (13)
- April 2007 (11)
- March 2007 (13)
- February 2007 (13)
- January 2007 (19)
- December 2006 (18)
- November 2006 (15)
- October 2006 (15)
- September 2006 (10)
- August 2006 (19)
- July 2006 (24)
- June 2006 (23)
- May 2006 (21)
- April 2006 (23)
- March 2006 (18)
- February 2006 (25)
- January 2006 (36)
- December 2005 (37)
- November 2005 (34)
- October 2005 (37)
- September 2005 (39)
- August 2005 (28)
- July 2005 (33)
- June 2005 (42)
- May 2005 (22)
- April 2005 (40)
- March 2005 (31)
- February 2005 (19)
- January 2005 (25)
- December 2004 (16)
- November 2004 (18)
- October 2004 (26)
- September 2004 (20)
- August 2004 (20)
- July 2004 (23)
- May 2003 (1)
- March 2003 (1)
- February 2003 (2)
- January 2003 (2)
- December 2002 (4)
- September 2002 (4)
- August 2002 (3)
- February 2002 (1)
- January 2002 (9)
- November 2001 (1)
- October 2001 (14)
Categories
- Audio
- Conferences
- Misc
- money
- OpenSource
- Personal
- Projects
- Startup
- SwitchGear
- Tech
- Web
Search
About this Entry
This page contains a single entry by Steve published on December 12, 2006 8:53 PM.
A Note On Spam was the previous entry in this blog.
Now I'm Mad is the next entry in this blog.
Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.
Statsorama
- 1004 posts
- 1160 comments
I get that all the time (even on Amazon!), but for me its 'QuickTime' from 'Apple Computer, Inc'. I think its a bug in IE7.
Alan
Hi Steve,
I hope you figure this out. I get the ActiveX control warning on script-free local pages, ie pages on my HD. This warning so pervasive and annoying that I'd like to turn the frackin' thing off. How to do that, and whether it will put me at risk, I dunno.
it might be....
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/aa740486.aspx
ActiveX controls--The new Internet Explorer 7 ActiveX Opt-In feature disables ActiveX controls on a user's machine. When the user visits a webpage that is trying to use a disabled ActiveX control, they see an Information bar to enable the control. Controls which were used in Internet Explorer 6 before upgrading to Internet Explorer 7, along with some pre-approved controls, are not disabled.
...you could write a script that would suppress the warning to download.
Like you're going to get me to install IE7? Nice try!
P.S. Memeflow/Goto has been extensively tested by me in Firefox 1.5x and 2.x and Camino 1.0.x for reference sake.
I am running IE7 on Vista and do not get any attempted Active X notices on your site, Steve.
Tony
Try this -- http://www.sanx.org/tipShow.asp?index=313
This is an issue for me even with Flash. When I have flash on the page the segment of page which hold the flash animation is marked with a border and needs to be activated before it can be used as a menu. So I always have an additional click which is so bloody annoying...
Any ideas or suggestions on how to disable this for flash items on the page? Why was this included at all? can you actully infect your computer in some way by using flash or clicking on flash menu links?