Message: "HTML rendering is currently disabled"

gbritton · Post by **gbritton** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:47 am

I have installed Firefox and IE 6 as well as Quicktax 2007 under wine 9.57. Firefox works OK, but I cannot start either IE6 or Quicktax. The first few messages on the console when starting IE6 are:

fixme

StopWatchMode () stub!
fixme:ole:CoResumeClassObjects stub
fixme:shdocvw:go_home stub
fixme:urlmon:URLMonikerImpl_BindToObject use running object table
fixme:win:WIN_CreateWindowEx Parent is HWND_MESSAGE
Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled.

With both programs, once I start them, I am greeted with the message

"HTML rendering is currently disabled"

in the middle of the window.

How can I get around this error?

Why is Wine looking for Mozilla when launching IE6?

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 10:07 am

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 6:47 AM, gbritton <[email protected]> wrote:

I have installed Firefox and IE 6 as well as Quicktax 2007 under wine 9.57.
Firefox works OK, but I cannot start either IE6 or Quicktax.

Sorry, we don't currently support IE 6 under Wine.
You can find a script that installs it with appropriate workarounds at
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux
Contact that script's author if you have problems.
- Dan

gbritton · Post by **gbritton** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 10:56 am

Actually I don't care about IE6, I only installed it to try to get around the HTML rendering disabled message. (I thought that maybe I needed it for some reason)

What I'm really concerned about is Quicktax, which shows the same message at startup.

How can I get around the message about Mozilla?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:32 am

gbritton wrote:Actually I don't care about IE6, I only installed it to try to get around the HTML rendering disabled message. (I thought that maybe I needed it for some reason)

What I'm really concerned about is Quicktax, which shows the same message at startup.

How can I get around the message about Mozilla?

In modern Wine versions you can run 'wine iexplore http://winehq.prg' and click on "install" button when prompted to install wine-gecko.

gbritton · Post by **gbritton** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 4:00 pm

Running

wine iexplore http://winehq.org

does not give me a prompt to install wine-gecko, just the message:

HTML rendering is currently disabled

But then, I don't need to run iexplore. I want to run quicktax, which causes the same error.

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 4:10 pm

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 2:00 PM, gbritton <[email protected]> wrote:

Running
wine iexplore http://winehq.org
does not give me a prompt to install wine-gecko, just the message:
HTML rendering is currently disabled

Try
wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks gecko

But then, I don't need to run iexplore. I want to run quicktax, which causes the same error.

Is there a demo version of quicktax around somewhere?
- Dan

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 4:26 pm

gbritton wrote:Running

wine iexplore http://winehq.org

does not give me a prompt to install wine-gecko, just the message:

HTML rendering is currently disabled

But then, I don't need to run iexplore. I want to run quicktax, which causes the same error.

Then your Wine version is either too old. Or it's time to wipe that ~/.wine directory and reinstall your program.

gbritton · Post by **gbritton** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:20 pm

I just installed wine for the first time, using the most current version that I could find:

0.9.57

gbritton · Post by **gbritton** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:27 pm

Dan Kegel wrote:On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 2:00 PM, gbritton <[email protected]> wrote:
Running
wine iexplore http://winehq.org
does not give me a prompt to install wine-gecko, just the message:
HTML rendering is currently disabled
Try
wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks gecko

But then, I don't need to run iexplore. I want to run quicktax, which causes the same error.
Is there a demo version of quicktax around somewhere?
- Dan

dunno about a quicktax demo. I did the winetricks gecko thing and it got rid of the message. Alas, Quicktax gets no further.

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:17 am

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:55 PM, ShellyCat <[email protected]> wrote:

When I ran the "wineprefixcreate" (as a regular user) it got the
"HTML rendering will be disabled" error.

Why does WINE care if Mozilla is installed? Will it refuse to render
HTML pages, even via programs that can usually render HTML
on their own, such as OpenOffice, Adobe Reader, etc???

No, the error message is benign, you can ignore it.

Is there a fix?

Yes. This is http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10090
and the wine developers have an idea how to get rid of
that bogus message. Vote for that bug if you want to encourage them
to fix it.
- Dan

Jon47 · Post by **Jon47** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 7:27 pm

I noticed this thread hasn't been updated in almost a year but I'm experiencing a similar problem. I'm running wine on os x and my wine-gecko directories look like this:

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jon@~: ls -ha ~/.wine/drive_c/windowls/gecko/0.1.0/
total 62728
drwxr-xr-x  36 jon  staff   1.2K Jan 18 16:02 .
drwxr-xr-x   3 jon  staff   102B Jan 18 15:47 ..
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff    30K Jan 18 16:02 LICENSE
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff    16B Jan 18 16:02 VERSION
drwxr-xr-x  12 jon  staff   408B Jan 18 16:02 chrome
drwxr-xr-x  36 jon  staff   1.2K Jan 18 16:02 components
drwxr-xr-x   5 jon  staff   170B Jan 18 16:02 defaults
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff   145B Jan 18 16:02 dependentlibs.list
drwxr-xr-x   4 jon  staff   136B Jan 18 16:02 dictionaries
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff   374K Jan 18 16:02 freebl3.dll
drwxr-xr-x   5 jon  staff   170B Jan 18 16:02 greprefs
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff   1.1M Jan 18 16:02 js3250.dll
drwxr-xr-x  14 jon  staff   476B Jan 18 16:02 modules
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff   211K Jan 18 16:02 nspr4.dll
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff   794K Jan 18 16:02 nss3.dll
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff   313K Jan 18 16:02 nssckbi.dll
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff   121K Jan 18 16:02 nssdbm3.dll
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff    65K Jan 18 16:02 nssutil3.dll
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff    52B Jan 18 16:02 platform.ini
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff    14K Jan 18 16:02 plc4.dll
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff    10K Jan 18 16:02 plds4.dll
drwxr-xr-x   3 jon  staff   102B Jan 18 16:02 plugins
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff   6.5K Jan 18 16:02 redit.exe
drwxr-xr-x  45 jon  staff   1.5K Jan 18 16:02 res
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff   110K Jan 18 16:02 smime3.dll
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff   173K Jan 18 16:02 softokn3.dll
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff   478K Jan 18 16:02 sqlite3.dll
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff   147K Jan 18 16:02 ssl3.dll
drwxr-xr-x  34 jon  staff   1.1K Jan 18 15:50 wine_gecko
-rw-------@  1 jon  staff   7.7M Jan 18 15:39 wine_gecko-1.0.0-x86.cab
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff    11K Jan 18 16:02 xpcom.dll
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff    95K Jan 18 16:02 xpcshell.exe
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff    83K Jan 18 16:02 xpidl.exe
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff    30K Jan 18 16:02 xpt_dump.exe
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff    26K Jan 18 16:02 xpt_link.exe
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jon  staff    19M Jan 18 16:02 xul.dll

The contents of the wine_gecko directory are the same (i wasn't sure if the "wine_gecko" folder that I unpacked from the .cab file was supposed to exist in the gecko/0.1.0 folder or not).

I also tried the winetricks method and it seemed to run without error, non-verbose output:

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All done, no errors.
Executing early_wine regedit /Users/jon/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/geckopath.reg
Executing wine regsvr32 mshtml
fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub!
fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x32ee54
fixme:file:MoveFileWithProgressW MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH unimplemented
fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"c:\\windows\\system32\\gecko\\1.0.0\\wine_gecko\\components\\xpti.dat" 1 536870916 0x0 0x0 0x1b40a4 0x0
fixme:iphlpapi:GetAdaptersAddresses no support for IPv6 addresses
fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0xa6ff518, overlapped 0xa6ff520): stub
fixme:file:MoveFileWithProgressW MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH unimplemented
fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"c:\\windows\\system32\\gecko\\1.0.0\\wine_gecko\\components\\compreg.dat" 1 536870916 0x0 0x0 0x1dbb5f4 0x0
Successfully registered DLL mshtml
Install of gecko done
winetricks done.

whenever I try to run iexplore from wine (ie, "wine iexplore http://winehq.prg" or any other url) it opens up the window for Internet Explorer but it only displays a solid white page and this is the output on the command-line:

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fixme:ole:CoResumeClassObjects stub
fixme:urlmon:URLMoniker_BindToObject use running object table
fixme:shdocvw:BindStatusCallback_OnProgress status code 1
^[[A^[[B^[[Bjon@~: wine iexplore http://winehq.prg
fixme:ole:CoResumeClassObjects stub
fixme:urlmon:URLMoniker_BindToObject use running object table
fixme:shdocvw:BindStatusCallback_OnProgress status code 1

Which is some progress

because it used to display the message about not having wine_gecko installed. Does anybody have any ideas about how I can get this working?
Honestly, I don't really give a crap about web-browsing in wine, but I'm using Steam and steam seems to require wine_gecko to browse their store.

For what it's worth, this is the output on the cli when I try to run Steam:

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jon@~: wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/Steam.exe 
fixme:menubuilder:SaveIconResAsXPM Unsupported color depth 32-bit
fixme:menubuilder:SaveIconResAsXPM Unsupported color depth 32-bit
CellID: Fetching server list from CSDS. . .
fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000100, 00000000): partial stub.
fixme:urlmon:CoInternetSetFeatureEnabled 5, 0x00000002, 1, stub
fixme:urlmon:CoInternetSetFeatureEnabled 10, 0x00000002, 1, stub
CellID: CSDS returned 162 servers.
CellID: Connecting to 95.140.224.26:27031. . .
CellID: Connect to 95.140.224.26:27031 took 171 MS
CellID: Nothing beat our old best time of 5 MS
fixme:mixer:MIX_GetLineInfo MIXER_GETLINEINFOF_SOURCE 0 dst=0
fixme:mixer:MIX_GetLineInfo MIXER_GETLINEINFOF_SOURCE 0 dst=1
[000:087] MagicCam 0: Current process: wine, Flash is loaded: no
[000:087] Error(magiccammac.cc:276): MagicCam 0: MagicCamOpen: Not an allowed process!
[000:000] MagicCam 1: Current process: wine, Flash is loaded: no
[000:000] Error(magiccammac.cc:276): MagicCam 1: MagicCamOpen: Not an allowed process!
fixme:wave:AudioUnit_SetVolume independent left/right volume not implemented (1.000000, 1.000000)
fixme:wbemprox:wbem_locator_ConnectServer 0x13d4f80, L"ROOT\\CIMV2", (null), (null), (null), 0x00000080, (null), 0x0, 0x388e014)
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {77f10cf0-3db5-4966-b520-b7c54fd35ed6} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {77f10cf0-3db5-4966-b520-b7c54fd35ed6} could be created for context 0x1
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
fixme:advapi:RegisterTraceGuidsW (0x7e2f9f97, 0x7e434b08, {3e1fd72a-c323-4574-9917-5ce9c936f78c}, 1, 0x32d308, (null), (null), 0x7e434b10,)
fixme:advapi:RegisterTraceGuidsW (0x7e2f9f97, 0x7e434b28, {afff9c82-5be3-4205-9b3e-49e014c09a63}, 1, 0x32d308, (null), (null), 0x7e434b30,)
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_RESET_URLCACHE_SESSION: STUB
err:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken Unhandled Token Information class 18!
err:ole:create_server class {9ba05972-f6a8-11cf-a442-00a0c90a8f39} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {9ba05972-f6a8-11cf-a442-00a0c90a8f39} could be created for context 0x4
err:ole:apartment_getclassobject DllGetClassObject returned error 0x80070002
err:ole:create_server class {9ba05972-f6a8-11cf-a442-00a0c90a8f39} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {9ba05972-f6a8-11cf-a442-00a0c90a8f39} could be created for context 0x5
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_RESET_URLCACHE_SESSION: STUB
err:ole:create_server class {9ba05972-f6a8-11cf-a442-00a0c90a8f39} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {9ba05972-f6a8-11cf-a442-00a0c90a8f39} could be created for context 0x4
err:ole:apartment_getclassobject DllGetClassObject returned error 0x80070002
err:ole:create_server class {9ba05972-f6a8-11cf-a442-00a0c90a8f39} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {9ba05972-f6a8-11cf-a442-00a0c90a8f39} could be created for context 0x5
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
fixme:win:RegisterDeviceNotificationA (hwnd=0x100e8, filter=0x32de20,flags=0x00000004),
        returns a fake device notification handle!
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
fixme:shdocvw:IEParseDisplayNameWithBCW stub: 0x0 L"http://store.steampowered.com" 0x140a528 0x32ab30
fixme:shdocvw:IEParseDisplayNameWithBCW stub: 0x0 L"http://steamcommunity.com/actions/InitializeSession?steamid=76561197997578422&onetimepassword=95128f4f14e0231f&language=english" 0x13d7b08 0x32aa08

Sorry for all the code! Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jon47 · Post by **Jon47** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 7:39 pm

Oops, solved it myself, I had confusion between the windows/system32/gecko directory and the windows/gecko/ directory, was able to get this working without even restarting X, thank you!

Jon47 · Post by **Jon47** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 7:56 pm

spoke too soon, the browser in steam is still displaying the white page although the iexplore browser is working, guess I'll need to keep digging.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 8:06 pm

Jon47 wrote:

spoke too soon, the browser in steam is still displaying the white page although the iexplore browser is working, guess I'll need to keep digging.

You may need to install Firefox to access Steam games, maybe?

James McKenzie

Jon47 · Post by **Jon47** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 9:22 pm

James McKenzie wrote: You may need to install Firefox to access Steam games, maybe?
James McKenzie

Hmm.. why would that be?
I can play the games just fine, I'm just having trouble using the browser in steam to browse the web store.

I can work around this by browsing the web store in a browser running natively, then installing new games by finding their id and running something like this:

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wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/Steam.exe -applaunch [game_id]

but the optimal solution would be to get the browser in Steam working.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 9:29 pm

Jon47 wrote:

James McKenzie wrote:

You may need to install Firefox to access Steam games, maybe?
James McKenzie

Hmm.. why would that be?
I can play the games just fine, I'm just having trouble using the browser in steam to browse the web store.

I can work around this by browsing the web store in a browser running natively, then installing new games by finding their id and running something like this:

Code:
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/Steam.exe -applaunch [game_id]

but the optimal solution would be to get the browser in Steam working.

Ok. I think this is a known problem. Try looking through the Wine
Bugzilla and if such a report exists, register and vote for it.

James McKenzie

Jon47 · Post by **Jon47** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:11 pm

The nearest I could find in the bugs database was this:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15263
which isn't exactly the same issue, this bug is about being able to view the store but not being able to activate the purchase links - I can't view the store at all.

I'm inclined to believe that my problem isn't a bug with wine per se, but more like a problem with my own configuration of some of the programs that run via wine, wine_gecko and what not.

The reason I believe this is because I am able to open a page by running the standalone version of iexplore, but it doesn't work when the iexplore window happens inside the steam program.. it makes me think that Steam's instance of iexplore is looking in a different place for wine_gecko than iexplore uses when run standalone.

When I try to open the store using the iexplore window in steam, I get the same results as when I tried to open iexplore alone when wine_gecko was not configured correctly - a white page. Obviously I understand this might not be the only cause for this result but it seems to follow..

It could also be I don't understand what the heck is going on, I'll keep poking around with the configuration and using the workaround described above (which I found in the bug)