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Does Opera support ActiveX and/or VBScript?

April 26, 2017ActiveX Opera support vbscript

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Does Opera support ActiveX and/or VBScript?

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Opera does not support ActiveX. Opera Software is dedicated to supporting Internet standards. ActiveX is not a standard and will only work on Microsoft Windows. Opera Software takes pride in offering Opera on multiple operating systems. ActiveX is also the source of many security problems in Internet Explorer. We believe it is better to use Java to perform ActiveX tasks, so that our users can have a secure and standards-compliant Web browser. The same reasoning applies to our decision not to support VBScript. For a good reference on this and other Microsoft security hazards, take a look at a C|Net article written by Paul Festa and Joe Wilcox on May 5th, 2000: Microsoft criticized for lack of software security.