Firefox Emulating Explorer on Internet

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Apr 7 17:04:46 UTC 2008


Tom Horsley wrote:
>>> Indeed.  For that, you will need this:
>>>
>>> http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
>> I should give it a try - so far, I have never once gotten
>> any even slightly nontrivial application to work
>> correctly under wine, but maybe wine has improved
>> since I last tried...
> 
> Well, I've tried it, and it may be a little better than I
> remember, but not much :-). I told it to install flash,
> but flash content doesn't seem to work anyway. If I
> scroll the page up and down, all the images that went on and
> off the screen during the scrolling wind up looking like they
> have been run through a shredder. And when I exited, it
> was apparently still running, so I had to kill -9 it, then
> wineserver went to 100% and I had to kill -9 it as well.
> I don't think I'll be doing a lot of IE browsing :-).
> 
Flash works in Seamonkey, and last time I tried in Firefox as well. You 
can just change the ident string from about:config, or use an add-on (I 
avoid, since nothing is as free of bugs as code I don't install).

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot




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