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: | Garbage |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 6.23 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Install Main window of the explorer
What does not
Can't find any pages including about:blank
Workarounds
What was not tested
flash, javascript etc. (impossible to test when you can't see any pages.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Not able to use it. Just you can open the window and say "the window appeared." Admin note: rating changed to conform to the rating definitions.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Linux Mint 20.2 "Uma" | Dec 10 2021 | 6.23 | No | Not installable | No | Garbage | Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | |
| Show | 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 | No | Bronze | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 28 2014 | 1.6.2 | Yes | Yes | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Linux Mint 15 "Olivia" | Sep 19 2013 | 1.6 | Yes | Yes | No | Bronze | an anonymous user |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 9727 | Multiple applications fail to show HTML dialog due to 'mshtml.ShowHTMLDialog' being a stub (OPML, Intuit QuickBooks Free / Akamai Download Manager, DotNet VersionCheck) | NEW | View | |
| 12433 | Internet Explorer 7/8 is not showing any page | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 18075 | IE8 crashes due to missing urlmon.dll.423 API | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 19273 | Internet Explorer 8 is non-functional | CLOSED | WONTFIX | View |
| 19311 | IE8 cannot "find" URLs | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 19312 | Can not close IE8 | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 19313 | IE8's menus are not visible | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 23134 | iexplore does not correctly detect proxy details | NEW | View | |
| 25283 | Unimplemented function urlmon.dll.410 | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 25648 | ie8 does not navigate to web pages or obey home page setting | NEW | View | |
| 26651 | Page fault connecting to my.if.com | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 27220 | Internet Explorer 8 always shows error message on startup | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 27388 | IE8 UTF-7 doesn't work | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 27998 | IE7 & IE8 have black back ground where page tabs should be and .GIF's no longer render | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 28446 | Internet Explorer 8 hangs at google.com | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 28711 | Internet Explorer 8 crashes | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
| 28909 | Internet Explorer 8 crashes on resetting settings - unimplemented function wininet.dll.DeleteWpadCacheForNetworks | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 29051 | Internet Connection Wizard: tapi.dll - unimplemented function TAPI32.dll.tapiGetLocationInfoW | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 29060 | IE8 crashes on opening https://red001.mail.microsoftonline.com | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 29249 | iexplore fails to load ftp.adobe.com | NEW | View | |
| 29318 | Internet Explorer 8 cannot show previews on the quick tabs screen | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 29319 | Internet Explorer 8 fails to start an InPrivate Browsing session | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 29321 | Internet Explorer 8 shows upside-down previews on the quick tabs screen | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 29356 | Internet Explorer 8's content advisor shows small icons with a black background | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 29365 | Internet Explorer 8 fails to submit a URL to VirusTotal for analysis | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 29382 | Internet Explorer 8's developer tools window hangs after changing document mode | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 29574 | Ajax example fails with unspecified error (IE8) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 29583 | JScript is missing 'new XMLHttpRequest();' support | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 29590 | Search results do not update on webpage (IE8) | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 29642 | IE8 crashes in short time | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 30107 | IE8 buttons bar doesn't have background under several buttons | NEW | View | |
| 30116 | Internet Explorer 8 will not run | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 30488 | IE8 shows corrupted previews on the quick tabs screen | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 31655 | Upgrading Wine destroys registry entries | NEW | View | |
| 31671 | Internet Explorer 8 cannot be closed | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 31672 | Internet Explorer 8 (through winetricks) crashes | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 33787 | IE8 crashes on new tab | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 34021 | IE8 crashes badly when navigating to www.microsoft.com | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 34022 | Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 crashes on unimplemented function urlmon.dll.414 with 'wininet' set to 'native' | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
| 34023 | IE8 remains in memory after being closed | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 34024 | IE8: Help --> About doesn't do anything | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 34025 | IE8 help exits silently | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 34026 | IE8 help pages are blank | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 34027 | IE8 menus are not activated with ALT key | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
| 37421 | Internet Explorer 8: crashes on startup | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 45484 | iExplorer 8 for winXP cannot install | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
| 53103 | ie8 doesn't start (race condition) | ASSIGNED | 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.
