[Wine] Re: Wine with IE8

[dimesio]

> I tried running ie8 with wine and i discovered this:
> 
> 1. No shortcut or reference link in the wine folder
> 2. IE8 froze after i tried to start it. Also when trying to change the url
> to google.com ...... 


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18075
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19313


> I however CAN run ie 7 on playonlinux but it wont download files 

PlayOnLinux isn't supported here. This forum is for plain Wine.

Using real IE as a browser is not recommended. The main reason to install IE in Wine is for an app that needs its native dlls, and for those IE6 usually works best.