[Wine] Internet Explorer starts without toolbar or menu

[Tim Johnson]

* dimesio <wineforum-user at winehq.org> [100202 04:01]:
> 
> Tim Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > Say what! You're saying IE is not meant for browsing!
> > Obviously you are not a web programmer. Every web programmer needs
> > to be testing on *both* IE and firefox. On my previous OS, I ran
> > IE out of Crossover with full toolbars and menus.
> > 
> > I was therefore able to test both html rendering and javascript
> > performance.
> > 
> > I don't mean to appear brusque here but that is not the answer I
> > was hoping for.
> > 
> > Please don't tell me that you can't run IE out of wine with
> > full features... <please>
> > 
> 
> 
> I said Wine's IE is not meant for browsing. Even if it was full-featured, it's based on the mozilla gecko engine, so it's not suitable for what you want anyway. 
 
> Real IE6 and IE7 can be installed with winetricks. IE6 mostly sort of works, last time I tried IE7 it crashed on start. 
 
> Crossover includes hacks to make some things work that don't work
> in plain Wine, so real IE might work better in it.  But are you
> sure the browser you used under it was real IE, and not just
> wine-gecko with the missing features added? (I don't know, I don't
> use Crossover.)

  Thanks again dimesio. It appears to me that I ought to just plunk
  down the fee for Crossover. It is a small price to pay for the
  convenience.
  cheers
-- 
Tim 
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