How to run a local exe in my firefox extension?

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Published on 2010-03-22T08:10:50Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 10:21 UTC
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I want to run a local exe in my firefox extension javascript file, but ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell") is work fine in IE,not in FF,how to run a local exe in js in firefox.

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