FF3 + IE Tab on Hardy 8.04

Skidilliplop · 18 Nov 2008 at 16:21

I've got a dual install of XP and Ubuntu on my work lappy and I quite prefer using Ubuntu as it isn't affected by group policy and wotnot + has more useful network troubleshooting tools than XP. I reckon I can get away with most stuff using samba and RDP the only drawback is our helpdesk solution runs in ASP and renders like a pile of disorganised s*** in firefox. Under XP this was remedied by installing the ever useful IETab addon, but it doesn't work in linux...
Now one way I know to run windowsy stuff in linux is WINE. If I ran FF in WINE do you reckon IETab could then work and all my problems be solved?

masterluke · 18 Nov 2008 at 19:54

BigglesPiP · 18 Nov 2008 at 20:16

If you also installed IE under wine, possibly.

masterluke · 18 Nov 2008 at 21:46

http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Beta

Skidilliplop · 19 Nov 2008 at 09:52

BigglesPiP said:
If you also installed IE under wine, possibly.

Are you seriosuly suggesting I would voulentarily install internet explorer?

IN THE LINUX FORUM TOO! Sit still and await lynching.

I will examine the above link shortly and see what it has to offer

then I will go play with WINE

The Mad Rapper · 19 Nov 2008 at 11:52

Or you could create a Windows XP VM in VirtualBox and use that instead?

Skidilliplop · 19 Nov 2008 at 13:45

The Mad Rapper said:
Or you could create a Windows XP VM in VirtualBox and use that instead?

I would but that would completely defeat the object of being in linux as I have XP installed on another partition. The only reason I'm using Ubuntu is because I prefer it to XP for work. An entirely new guest OS is a bit OTT for the sake of one web page, albeit quite a vital one.

The Mad Rapper · 19 Nov 2008 at 16:16

Skidilliplop said:
I would but that would completely defeat the object of being in linux as I have XP installed on another partition. The only reason I'm using Ubuntu is because I prefer it to XP for work. An entirely new guest OS is a bit OTT for the sake of one web page, albeit quite a vital one.

Not at all! It's easy, and dare I say, fun to set up!

It's obviously up to you, but you could nuke your drive entirely, install Ubuntu on the whole disk and just use XP virtually?

VirtualBox VMs take seconds to load, brilliant

Skidilliplop · 20 Nov 2008 at 15:45

I know, I use Lots of virtual machines in virtualbox on linux hosts for various odds and sods servers.
I don't really want to chuck my resources at XP which a VM would do, Plus I'll most likely have other VMs doing tests etc aswell which will need the resources.
I'll look into IE's for linux and WINE first, if that fails I'll use Vmware and point it at my existing XP partition if necessary. Hopefully that won't be necessary.