Application Details:
| Version: | 7.0 (32-bit) |
| License: | Free to use |
| URL: | http://www.microsoft.com/ie |
| Votes: | 13 |
| Latest Rating: | Garbage |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 6.23 |
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What works
Installation works through winetricks. The exact install procedure is clunky. See the winetricks script under load_ie7() for details. They unregister wine's IE, change overrides, remove fake DLLs, put in a dummy catalog file, remove the Z:/ drive and install. Winetricks does all this, so it is not really necessary to do anything, just made a fresh .wine folder, ran "winetricks ie7" and sat back.
What does not
Crash occasionally when resizing windows, accessing history. Some sites, namely http://anch.org crashes. Rudimentary JavaScript sort of works.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Anything beyond using it to check the layout of some key sites.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
| 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 | Fedora 25 x86_64 | Apr 06 2017 | 1.8.7 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Bert | ||
| Current | Fedora 17 x86_64 | Sep 20 2012 | 1.5.11 | No, but has workaround | Yes | Bronze | Henry Kroll | ||
| Show | Fedora 17 | Dec 28 2012 | 1.4.1 | No | Not installable | Garbage | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 23 2012 | 1.5.4 | Yes | No | Garbage | an anonymous user |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 23134 | iexplore does not correctly detect proxy details | NEW | View | |
| 30870 | Microsoft Internet Explorer 7: https://gmail.com can log in, but can't display standard view? | NEW | View | |
| 31655 | Upgrading Wine destroys registry entries | NEW | View | |
| 34047 | IE7 reports lookup failure before the main window opens | NEW | View | |
| 34049 | IE7 does not navigate to web pages or obey home page setting | NEW | View |
If you want to run Internet Explorer 6 with the rendering engine from version 7, follow the instructions, or use beta options of ies4windows script.
Note: ies4linux is NOT supported by Wine. Report bugs using their script to their maintainers.
winetricks ie7The install seems flaky, so if it hangs or crashes, try it again.
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.
