Internet Explorer on Linux

I’ve never been so happy to see IE ever So, long story short: my university’s student site (which is a pile of crap btw) can only be accessed from IE. It features frame based design and to be able to switch between pages while logged in you need to have javascript enabled. Now, the page is coded in such a way that it works only on IE because the script references an element by its ID but that element is not in the current scope.

Solution? Wine

To ease up things a bit after installing Wine I used the Sidenet Wine Configuration Utility and installed Internet Explorer 6. As it crashed when opening a popup (the login from the university is in a popup, how convenient :-|) I was later to find out that the problem is with the DCOM library. I downloaded DCOM98 from the Microsoft website and got it installed with WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ole32=n" wine dcom98.exe as stated in the Sidenet FAQ. I believe “WINEDLLOVERRIDES=”ole32=n”" stands for disable the current library and use the new one (if you don’t include that the setup will yeld an error saying the library is already installed).

Internet Explorer 6 on Ubuntu in its full grace: