Whilst it would not be a web-browser solution potentially you could use Microsoft Remote Desktop Client on a Mac to remotely control the Windows Home Server. It should be possible to run some versions of Internet Explorer via Wine-Bottler or similar e.g. VirtualBox plus a VM from the above at least solves any cost issues. There is actually a way to get a virtual machine for any of these free free of charge just to run Internet Explorer. You could use - as you have already tried Parallels Desktop or alternatively VMware Fusion or VirtualBox which unlike the other two is free. Windows Home Server is also effectively deceased along with Microsoft Media Center. ' Enable 'Script ActiveX Controls Marked Safe for Scripting' as well. Each ActiveX component can have its own toolbars and menu bars, and each of its sessions appears in a different window within. Make sure that 'Enable' is checked next to 'ActiveX Controls and Plug-ins. Go down to 'Options.' Click on 'Security' and then set a 'Custom Level. If you are using Windows project, it allows you to work on multiple projects. Note: Silverlight might be considered an alternative but again Microsoft wish that would also crawl away and die and again I do not believe it works in Edge. Click on 'Tools' in the Internet Explorer toolbar. File Download ActiveX is a free ActiveX control, you could use this control in your Windows project or software project to download all the needed data from internet/intsranet/cybernet and easy to accomplish the batch data downloads in a simple and quick manner. Developers these days are supposed to use.

Microsoft have long wished Active-X would crawl away and die.

Active-X only works in Internet Explorer for Windows, it may not even work in the current/last version of Internet Explorer for Windows 10 and certainly does not work in Edge the supposed replacement for Internet Explorer.

Where to get activex