Application Details:
| Version: | 8.0 for NT 5.2 (32-bit) |
| License: | Free to use |
| URL: | http://www.microsoft.com/ie |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Garbage |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.7.18 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Nothing
What does not
Everything.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Installer - fails with "Internet Explorer 8 not supported on this operating system" message, on all versions of Windows tried.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 07 2014 | 1.7.18 | Yes | Yes | Garbage | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Apr 03 2014 | 1.4.1 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Apr 12 2011 | 1.3.17 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Ken Sharp | ||
| Current | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 09 2010 | 1.2-rc7 | No | Not installable | Garbage | Michael Lancaster | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 13 2009 | 1.1.25 | No | Not installable | Garbage | Ken Sharp |
| 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 |
| 19312 | Can not close IE8 | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 19313 | IE8's menus are not visible | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 19314 | IE8 for Server 2003 refuses to install (Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 install required) | CLOSED | FIXED | 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 | |
| 27388 | IE8 UTF-7 doesn't work | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 28909 | Internet Explorer 8 crashes on resetting settings - unimplemented function wininet.dll.DeleteWpadCacheForNetworks | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 29294 | No sound with ALSA loopback devices | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 29319 | Internet Explorer 8 fails to start an InPrivate Browsing session | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 30107 | IE8 buttons bar doesn't have background under several buttons | NEW | View | |
| 30488 | IE8 shows corrupted previews on the quick tabs screen | CLOSED | FIXED | 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 |
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.
