Internet Explorer 5.5 (Released: July 2000)
Application Details:
| Version: | 5.5 |
| License: | Free to use |
| URL: | http://www.microsoft.com/ie |
| Votes: | Marked as obsolete |
| Latest Rating: | Bronze |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.3.6 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Nothing
What does not
Installer
Workarounds
What was not tested
The rest
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
With the commands from the winetricks ie6 installer I was able to install the ie5.5 but it crashes shortly after startup...
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Nov 21 2010 | 1.3.6 | Yes | Yes | No | Bronze | A Wine user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 09 2010 | 1.2-rc7 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | Michael Lancaster | |
| Current | sidux | Sep 26 2009 | 1.1.29 | No | Not installable | No | Garbage | phobie | |
| Show | Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 13 2009 | 1.1.25 | No | Not installable | No | Garbage | Ken Sharp | |
| Show | Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Oct 29 2008 | 1.1.7 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | Justin Soulia |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 1136 | No dialogArguments in modelessDialog in Internet Explorer | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 3753 | IE 5.5 and IE 6 crash when trying Yahoo! music | CLOSED | WORKSFORME | View |
| 5223 | Internet Explorer doesnt work (shlwapi and shdocvw error) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 5644 | Internet Explorer 5.5 and other wrong activex or js rendering problem | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 6404 | Tooltips shown as windows "blocking" cursor in IE | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 10198 | IE’s writing-mode:tb-rl (CJK-style vertical text layout) renders fullwidth characters rotated when it should not | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 15666 | IE5.5 crash in TOOLBAR_AddStringW (browselc.dll is missing) | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
| 25400 | Internet Explorer 4 and 5.x installers complain "cannot find WINDOWS.HLP" | NEW | View | |
| 25432 | Internet Explorer 6, 5.5, and 5.0 fail to install without native inseng | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
This note was originally added to IE Version 5, but may be relevant to all versions.
Don't run IE on an RW mounted DOS partition !
Pretty problematic directory renaming/corruption can happen.
This seems to happen if Wine doesn't have access to certain Windows registry keys.
Renames e.g. "Program Files" to "$!$!$!$!.pfr" and does other horrible things.
BTW, it does not only happen with IE, as it seems to be a generic Windows
Setup process of Explorer which is doing this, which can be launched
under multiple circumstances.
To be safe, use a backup copy only, i.e. copy all relevant windows files over
e.g. to an ext2 partition.
