[Eagle9]

"One of the easiest ways might be to use Firefox with a plug-in to allow certain sites (such as windowsupdate.com) to transparently use MSIE to get back the ActiveX functionality without bothering the user over the choice and differences," said the Internet Storm Center in an online alert Wednesday.

Two such plug-ins (called "extensions" in Firefox parlance) that add IE functionality to Firefox are IE Tab and IE View.

If Microsoft Windows Update web site will accept Firefox with either of those two extensions, then banking and MS Exchange/Outlook Web Mail and other IE only web sites should also accept it.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

If Microsoft Windows Update web site will accept Firefox with either of those two extensions, then banking and MS Exchange/Outlook Web Mail and other IE only web sites should also accept it

Interesting. It sounds like the Firefox plugin is allowing other activeX controls to run. But I wonder if they run in the context of Firefox (which I would need for the MS Ex/Outlook webmail) or if they just run in the background (ie to do MS installations, dll registrations, etc.)