title: wine notes: wine web browser link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2008/01/01/wine-notes-wine-web-browser/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 584 created: 2008/01/01 05:43:26 created_gmt: 2008/01/01 05:43:26 comment_status: open post_name: wine-notes-wine-web-browser status: publish post_type: post

wine notes: wine web browser

Couldn’t get wine’s “built-in” web browsing utility, iexplore.exe, to work and it really bugged me. So I went up to the Wine-Wiki (not the Official Wine Wiki) and found this page that explains how to do a manual install of the requisite gecko libraries.

Basically you have to download wine_gecko from here, run cabextract against it and then move the whole folder over to ~/.wine/Program Files. Then you add a new string value to HKCU/Software/Wine/MSHTML named “GeckoPath” with a value of “C:Program Fileswine_gecko” using regedit. Because the interface is still rough (it’s doesn’t provide a navigation bar or even an address window — no working controls at all), it’s recommended that you invoke it with the command iexplore.exe http://[website address] (e.g. iexplore.exe http://google.com).

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