Upgrade Mozilla ActiveX Control - HERE'S HOWTO

[NearZero]

If your using Firefox on the WebBuilder preview pane (internal preview) and would like to use a more recent version of the Gecko renderer, then here you go...

Notes:
Tested on XP SP2 (WB version will not matter).
Only a small amount of testing done, but appears to work ok.
It is slower to load, but thats a minor complaint.
Oh and it's your decision

Here we go..

1) Close WeBuilder.
2) Remove the Mozilla ActiveX Controller V1.7 (use add and remove programs).
3) save this http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla ... .win32.zip
4) Extract the zip to some folder, eg: C:\MOZZIE (Take your pick).
5) Now use regsvr32 C:\MOZZIE\MOZCTLX.DLL (start run will do).

Now start WeBuilder, your preview pane with Firefox will now use the latest gecko engine.

Add this to a test html file: <button onclick="alert(navigator.userAgent)">Version</button> then preview, welcome to 1.9.x

UNINSTALLING - Just in case
Just use start run: regsvr32 /u C:\MOZZIE\MOZCTLX.DLL
You should get a message stating successful unregistration.

Then reinstall the old version.

Thats it, now xulrunner the thing you downloaded is upgraded often, just check http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla ... r/releases for more goodness.

[syrupcore]

thanks a lot for writing this up!

If it's that simple, hopefully the blumentals team can test it and distribute it with the next release.

[Karlis]

Oh, good. I would appreciate if anyone who uses this would report whether it worked smoothly and what system you have.

[Cary]

I was already using this with another piece of software which specifically said it could make use of it. After reading the 1st post here I tried WeBuilder 2008's internal FF preview and there it was. It seems to be working fine for me on my 64bit Vista Ultimate laptop.

[ginestra]

Lovely, thanks. Followed procedure as above (using command line to register the dll via regsvr32) and internal preview is working just fine.

[davenz]

Thanks for an excellent post.

On my machine (Vista Business 32bit) the dll loads but throws an error as in the image below, however the Mozilla preview still works as expected.



Cheers.

Dave.

[NearZero]

Hi davenz,

That error could be a failed registry key entry due to permissions, I guess you did regsvr32 as an admin?
Even so, it could still be a permission error on a reg key.

It's possible to find out why but would require you investigating with regedit or process monitor.
We could wait and see if others get the same problem then throw some time at it.

[Karlis]

Yes, this sems to be a permission-issue. Run cmd in ADMIN mode and it should register just fine.

[Karlis]

Please test this one:
http://download.blumentals.net/tools/Mo ... ol1905.exe

I tried to create an installer, works for me on vista but not sure about other systems.

[NearZero]

Hey Karlis,

Tested on XP SP3, works as expected

[danissimo]

Hello,
I also got this regsvr32 error (code 0x8002801c). My system is Win7 x64. I ran cmd as admin.
I used Process Monitor to reveal errors during installation, but there was no permission errors (Access denied),
only "Name not found", "Success", "Reparse", "No more entries", "Buffer overflow" and "Buffer too small" messages.
Nevertheless the Firefox preview in WB works.

[mapleleaf]

Hello,
Nevertheless the Firefox preview in WB works.

yes it does work very well.

I am using three different version of FF.

3.6.13, 4.0b11, and 4.0b12pre they all work very well in WB.

Since FF only is a 32-bit version, it does run quite well in a 64-bit Win7.

Btw, The Gecko 2.0 engine is totally awesome.


mapleleaf

http://www.mirana.net

[Hondoe]

Wow! The http://download.blumentals.net/tools/Mo ... ol1905.exe provided by Karlis not only installed without any issues on my Win 7 64-bit system, but it solved my earlier mentioned annoyance:

That when I first ran WeBuilder, the preview would not appear the first time it was invoked.

After installing the MozillaControl1905, this problem vanished!

Great!

[mapleleaf]

Wow! The http://download.blumentals.net/tools/Mo ... ol1905.exe provided by Karlis not only installed without any issues on my Win 7 64-bit system, but it solved my earlier mentioned annoyance:

That when I first ran WeBuilder, the preview would not appear the first time it was invoked.

After installing the MozillaControl1905, this problem vanished!

Great!

If you look at the date of the posting then you would see that it is 2 years old.

The current version of XULRunner 1.9.2 is 1.9.2.13 this matches the production release Firefox 3.6.13.

Perhaps, Blumental should update this to reflect a more current version for download.

What version are you running on win7-64 bit FF 3.6.13 or 4.0b11?

mapleleaf

[Gatis]

Hi,

Thanks, I will ask Karlis to check if it is possible to update the version for Mozilla ActiveX Control

Gatis