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Actually, very easy.

Posted by: Administrator on October 13, 2005 04:46 AM
3 step process!

1) <a href="http://www.winehq.org/site/download" title="winehq.org">http://www.winehq.org/site/download</a winehq.org>

Install that.

2) <a href="http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php" title="uklinux.net">http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php</a uklinux.net>

Install that.

3) <a href="http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/" title="tatanka.com.br">http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/</a tatanka.com.br>

Download and run this program.

Now, you can run IE, the program will automagically install Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0 for you. It's specially built for this purpose, so that web designers can test stuff in multiple IE versions.

I use it for my work.

A few things to note:

*I've used it at my office and at home, and in both cases, IE runs brainshaggingly fast. Faster than FireFox, and more interestingly, faster than IE does in Windows.

*It does NOT run very stable. The main thing I've noticed that will crash it is Flash, which is ubiquitous. So if you're using Flash on your site, this isn't gonna work very well, unless someone else knows a way around this.

I don't use Flash on my sites, so it does it's job pretty stable. Just don't use it for general browsing and it should be fine.

My email address is frapaquad at hotmail.com if you have any problems or need any help with that.

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