IE problems with latest Wine

freakyc · 2005-02-14 14:41:36

Just wondering if anyone else uses Wine to run Internet Explorer and had problems getting it to run with the last couple wine releases? And even better, figured out how to get it to run?

With the last couple wine releases, as soon as I run IE, it brings up the IE-has-crashed window. Rolling back to wine-20041019, it works fine.

jerem · 2005-02-17 16:30:29

I cannot believe someone is trying to run IE through Wine.

How many times will we have to explain people IE is shit ?:twisted:

IE has hundreds of security holes and lacks interesting features such as being GPL and tab browsig and so on... 8)

I suggest you try Mozilla, Firefox, Opera(which is not GPL but is quite functionnal and more secure), Galeon, Konqueror, K-meleon and so on...

By the way, does someone know about a low-ressources-consuming linux browser ? :?:

phrakture · 2005-02-17 16:40:47

jerem wrote:

I cannot believe someone is trying to run IE through Wine.
How many times will we have to explain people IE is shit ?:twisted:
IE has hundreds of security holes and lacks interesting features such as being GPL and tab browsig and so on... 8)

don't jump the gun here, buddy - some people need to run IE... at many offices IE is the standard (so they make intranet pages with non-standard styling and javascript), also web developers need to verify their pages render correctly

and running IE through wine circumvents most security holes...

freakyc: sorry can't help ya

jerem: try dillo or w3c for low resources

jerem · 2005-02-17 18:44:08

Oops, I forgot to mention Netscape, which some people still are used to use.

And I thank phrakture who gave me at least one reason why IE people have to use IE.

Also understand that my post is not a troll. I'm not a GPL-terrorist.

I just dont like poorly-made software, like IE. For example, I like Opera, which is yet not open-source, I also like Photoshop, Dreamweaver...

iphitus · 2005-02-17 22:17:02

There is reason to have IE installed, mainly for web developers. I write sites and having the site viewable in all browsers is an important thing. If I wrote a site for a company, and it looked horrible in IE, chances are i'm alienating most of their customers.

iphitus

kth5 · 2005-02-17 23:14:54

this may also have something to do with it:

http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/02/1 … 09&tid=106

if they block users running IE in Wine from the server side, why not as well let IE itself refuse to run in Wine?

EDIT:
let's all just ignore IE, it's got to die anyway. if nobody does it, there will always be like 90% of all people (idiots) using it regularly.

Gullible Jones · 2005-02-17 23:51:05

Low-resource Linux browser? Try Dillo... minimal graphical browser, very very fast. Uses GTK1 though.

Or use gLinks (type "links -g" at the command line) - it's also very fast and very light, and IIRC supports more stuff... Lack of proper keyboard scrolling control can be a PETA sometimes, but shouldn't be too big a problem.

Or just use Firefox... 10-20 megs isn't light, but it's no biggie on new boxes.

(Interestingly, it used to top 40 megs on my old machine... Yes, on Arch Linux. :? Abso-freakin' bizarre.)

freakyc · 2005-02-22 15:53:52

I knew someone would have something to say about IE iphitus has the reason I need it. That's the only reason I use it.

Gonna try the new wine package in a minute.

Edit: Just got the 20050211 in the latest update, and IE works with it again.

miller0521 · 2006-08-19 10:45:17

freakyc wrote:

I knew someone would have something to say about IE iphitus has the reason I need it. That's the only reason I use it.
Gonna try the new wine package in a minute.
Edit: Just got the 20050211 in the latest update, and IE works with it again.

Can you tell me what you did to get IE working under wine? Is it as simply as intalling wine via pacman then downloading the ie6setup.exe ?

karsten · 2006-08-19 14:15:52

i got it to work fine, it's as simple and finding and downloading ies4linux and running it

Gullible Jones · 2006-08-19 15:31:49

OMG... Do you guys realize how old this thread is?

karsten · 2006-08-19 16:36:43

Gullible Jones wrote:

OMG... Do you guys realize how old this thread is?

lol, miller revived it, not me!

miller0521 · 2006-08-19 17:34:38

karsten wrote:

Gullible Jones wrote:
OMG... Do you guys realize how old this thread is?
lol, miller revived it, not me!

I did revive it, I am currently using Debian, I am thinking of switching back to Arch though... just wondering if I do will I be able to get IE running. Gotta weigh the options of both distro's and see which is best for me

karsten · 2006-08-19 17:41:05

i had no problems running it. this is under a 32-bit chroot on a 64-bit box.

miller0521 · 2006-08-19 17:57:51

karsten wrote:

i had no problems running it. this is under a 32-bit chroot on a 64-bit box.

Thanks for letting me know, I'm still trying to decide between running Arch and Debian

mouse256 · 2006-08-23 16:35:07

I can't get it working since wine 0.9.12, I should try ies4linux...
And yes, I use it for testing sites in web developement

[edit]It works perfectly 0.9.19 using ies4linux [/edit]

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