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 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
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:
Additional Comments
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 45484 | iExplorer 8 for winXP cannot install | RESOLVED | INVALID | View |
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.
