Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP (32-bit)

Application Details:

Version:	8.0 for NT 5.1 (32-bit)
License:	Free to use
URL:	http://www.microsoft.com/ie
Votes:	2
Latest Rating:	Bronze
Latest Wine Version Tested:	4.0-rc2-staging

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Test Results

Old test results

The test results for this version are very old, and as such they may not represent the current state of Wine. Please consider submitting a new test report.

Selected Test Results

What works

Surfing works with https

dotnet40 - enabled sites are not supported (mscorlib.dll not registered)

Doesn't load big sites. (such as google maps, bbc, etc.) - Waiting forever for a response

What does not

Favorites sort of broken, some sites doesnt load at all

Workarounds

What was not tested

flash, activex

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU: Other
Driver: unknown

Additional Comments

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Current	Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu)	Dec 21 2018	4.0-rc2-staging	Yes	Yes	No	Bronze	Robin
Show	PC-BSD 10.0 (64-Bit)	May 19 2014	1.7.15	Yes	Yes		Bronze	an anonymous user
Show	Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Sep 28 2014	1.6.2	Yes	Yes		Garbage	an anonymous user
Show	Linux Mint 15 "Olivia"	Sep 19 2013	1.6	Yes	Yes		Bronze	an anonymous user
Show	Fedora 17 x86_64	Oct 31 2012	1.5.13	No	Not installable		Garbage	Graben

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
9727	mshtml's ShowHTMLDialog too stubby; OPML and Intuit QuickBooks Free / Akamai Download Manager fail	NEW		View
23134	iexplore does not correctly detect proxy details	NEW		View
25648	ie8 does not navigate to web pages or obey home page setting	NEW		View
29249	iexplore fails to load ftp.adobe.com	NEW		View
29590	Search results do not update on webpage (IE8)	UNCONFIRMED		View
30107	IE8 buttons bar doesn't have background under several buttons	NEW		View
34025	IE8 help exits silently	NEW		View
34026	IE8 help pages are blank	NEW		View
37421	Internet Explorer 8: crashes on startup	UNCONFIRMED		View

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HowTo / Notes

HOWTO

1. Copy and paste the following into a terminal:

cat > /tmp/IE8.reg <<EOF
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"TabProcGrowth"=dword:00000000
EOF
regedit /tmp/IE8.reg

2. Run winetricks -q urlmon mshtml

This may work, it may not. Try winetricks.

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