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What works
Installing with winetricks. Using the browser with process separation disabled. Some rendering is correct. Flash plugin, help, about screen, compatibility view, and at least very basic usage of internet options and developer tools work. No issues with tabs, view source, or opening a new window. Fullscreen works, but returning to non-fullscreen view will leave some visual artifacts.
What does not
The browser produces crash dialogs without actually crashing sometimes. Right-clicking on a webpage usually hangs the browser (though I saw it work once). Favorites don't really work. Manually checking a website with the smartscreen filter never seems to complete. Toolbars have some display issues. History doesn't seem to be saved. InPrivate browsing and adding a new search provider don't work. The browser gets quite laggy on some pages. Some web pages and images are displayed incorrectly.
What was not tested
Printing, plugins other than Flash, InPrivate filtering, running the browser without answering no to or disabling all optional settings during installation and first run, web slices, suggested sites, and there are probably other things I overlooked.
Internet options and developer tools were only briefly tested.
Additional Comments
To make the browser usable, you need to add a new value to the registry with regedit. Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Main
Add a new DWORD value there named TabProcGrowth with the value 0 (which should be the default).
Adding a native override for wininet may prevent a few cases of lag.
I disabled everything that can be disabled from the first-run dialog - I don't know whether this is really necessary to run the browser or not.
RE: SSL by Fred Ward on
Saturday July 21st 2012, 21:38
Just keep trying to connect
by Lee on Wednesday April 25th 2012, 21:08
I installed IE * using the method here: tinyurl.com/25sf4nb but it just opens (kind of squished) and just keeps trying to connect. I am using Ubuntu 10.4 and Wine v.1.2.2 (and later versions badly screw-up another program).
IE8 - Don't Install
by Kalasi on Thursday January 6th 2011, 4:24
~$ winetricks ie8
Download everything you need, start the installation process and gives an error:
The program iesetup.ehe detected a serious error. The program will be closed. We apologize for any inconvenience. etc.
IE 8 install
by Tom on Friday November 6th 2009, 2:32
Hello,
I got IE 8 to install and run but as others have pointed out here there are still allot of errors. I installed flash to and it worked fine, and renamed the jscript.dll in /system32 and set it as native and IE 8 installed a native dll.. The native dll seems to work better then the builtin dll at this time.
IE8 blocked
by Barry Schatz on Thursday June 11th 2009, 11:28
I clicked on the download link for IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe but upon running the installer it advises "Internet Explorer 8 is not supported on this operating system."
Working except for JavaScript
by Cillian de Róiste on Tuesday May 5th 2009, 7:25
IE8 works pretty well for me except JavaScript doesn't work and it throws an error for some sites. I don't know why, others work fine. www.google.com gives the error "Internet Explorer couldn't download %ws" although www.jquery.com works fine.
I am using wine-1.1.20 (on Mandriva 2009.0) and went through the following steps:
Created a fresh ~/.wine
Ran winetricks and set the version to win2k and installed IE6.
Ran winetricks and set the version to winxp.
Installed IE7:
$ wine IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe
Installed IE8:
$ wine IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe
I think it installed the first time, but when I tried to run it, it threw an error. For no good reason I ran the installer again. After that it works fine (except it doesn't seem to run any JavaScript). I think it is very usable for testing layout issues.
