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benhenny
09-29-2005, 01:59 PM
"Your security settings do not allow web sites to use ActiveX controls installed on your computer. This page may not display correctly."

For every page on Slickdeals! This is new as of today (9/29/05). And I have the Automatic Prompting for ActiveX controls set to Disable. Still I get this message with every F-ing page.
bean
09-29-2005, 04:23 PM
Dump IE use FF
slickdeals
09-29-2005, 04:34 PM
I'm trying with IE and it's not popping anything. Richmedia is used for the ad banners so maybe it's complaining about macromedia flash? Even if you don't have flash it should detect it and display accordingly. Anyhow, I've excluded rich media ads for now.
benhenny
09-30-2005, 09:06 AM
The problem stopped yesterday (9/29) a few hours after I posted the original message.
benjie
10-01-2005, 02:32 PM
Dump IE use FF
perfect. so no active x anything will work. brilliant.
Royal2000H
10-01-2005, 02:36 PM
perfect. so no active x anything will work. brilliant.
it sounds so wrong the way u say it....
but FF is way better than IE with activex off
bean
10-01-2005, 04:35 PM
perfect. so no active x anything will work. brilliant.
Brlliant, really great way of describing the lack of crap that IE brings, really there are only three Actve X things randombly used and most are Microsoft so why do you need it?
benhenny
10-07-2005, 09:23 AM
It's been back for a few days and won't go away.
xcgames
10-07-2005, 09:56 AM
maybe you have spyware which is unrelated to the slickdeals page? do you get activex on every website?
bean
10-07-2005, 10:55 AM
It's been back for a few days and won't go away.
I love the spyware associated with IE, anyone else love those Active X little droppers? Really for the love of anything sane USE FF.
Aluvus
10-07-2005, 02:35 PM
I love the spyware associated with IE, anyone else love those Active X little droppers? Really for the love of anything sane USE FF.
If this is a problem with the SD ads then "use another browser" is flat-out bad advice.
slickdeals
10-07-2005, 03:28 PM
Are you still getting them? I disabled one of the ads using flash. Anyhow, an email was dispatched to the ad agency to have them fix it.