Wine freezes upon clicking on web links

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LangdonDraper
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Wine freezes upon clicking on web links

Post by LangdonDraper »

Hello,

I have been having an issue related to clicking on web links in Windows applications executed through the latest version of Wine and I am trying to resolve it but so far no luck.

I have installed the Jump Desktop application, and I know that in previous versions of Wine (but haven't kept track of the exact versions), the application was working just fine.

However, with the latest (Wine 6.0.1, Mono 6.4.0 and Gecko 2.47.2), I am having Jump Desktop freezing whenever I click on a web link (for example to sign into Jump) and ultimately I need to force quit it.

I followed some advice concerning modifying three registry keys in regedit but no luck. Currently, in the registry I have:

- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\command
- (Default) string: "C:\windows\system32\winebrowser.exe" -nohome %1

- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\command
- (Default) string: "C:\windows\system32\winebrowser.exe" -nohome %1

- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\WineBrowser
- Browser string: xdg-open,firefox,konqueror,mozilla,netscape,galeon,opera,dillo

When I started encountering the error, I added %1 to the first two registry keys, and I created the WineBrowser key (given that it was not there) with its own Browser string.

However, this seems to have had no effect on it at all.

If, instead. I open the linux terminal and issue the command:

wine winebrowser https://winehq.org

The command gets executed fine and a new tab opens up in my instance of Brave running.

Can anyone think of any remedies that may resolve this problem?
Rendrag
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Re: Wine freezes upon clicking on web links

Post by Rendrag »

How did you go? Did you get this figured out? Just moved our work laptops from Macbook's to muuuuch better spec'd laptops on Ubuntu. But need my Jump Desktop.. Don't realllly want to run a Windows VM just for JD.. I guess next step would be try an older version of wine..?

Thanks,

DG
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