wine users - May 2009 - html help

Is it possible to use an installed firefox for html rendering instead of the
extra gecko package?

Probably not. Most Windows apps use a special object/ActiveX that adds an
Internet Explorer area in their app, and Gecko is the only free implementation
of the equivalent in Wine. Meaning Wine Gecko just tricks the app into thinking
it's IE, otherwise it wouldn't work.

You could install a real IE though, it might actually work instead of Wine
Gecko.

jbrown wrote:
> Is it possible to use an installed firefox for html rendering instead of
the extra gecko package?
No, wine_gecko was specially compiled with some Wine specific modifications.
These modifications are not available from standard Firefox.

jbrown wrote:
> Is it possible to use an installed firefox for html rendering instead of
the extra gecko package?
>
>   
What is missing from Wine-gecko that you need to have?

James McKenzie

Hi everyone,

I'm new here.

Hi everyone,

I'm new here.

James McKenzie wrote:
> What is missing from Wine-gecko that you need to have?
No, it's nothing missing. I just wanted to save the installation of things
which I thought were already on my computer.