HTML rendering is currently disabled

[Ret]

I am using Ubuntu 8.04 and Wine 1.10. Before installing Wine I had installed Firefox 3.0 final release for Linux as instructed on the Ubuntu site. It said not to uninstalled the version of Firefox that came with Ubuntu because it may break Gecko and other things, so I didn't uninstall it.

I've now installed Wine 1.10 and have installed one application, however, it gave me a prompt to install wine-gecko which I said yes to and then it gave me a window for the program that said "HTML rendering is currently disabled".

When I tried to run it again it just gave me the "HTML rendering is currently disabled" message and didn't say anything else.

After doing some searching I found a message that suggested runing:
wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks gecko

After doing this it now asks each time to install wine-gecko which I say yes and then it gives me the same old message " HTML rendering is currently disabled".

What does that mean by that it is disabled? How do I enable it? Did I mess up Gecko some how when I installed Firefox 3.0 final release?

Thanks for any help.

[Bamm]

Did I mess up Gecko some how when I installed Firefox 3.0 final release?

No, Wine has it's own packaging of Gecko, which does not rely on Firefox being installed. Try a clean Wine profile to see if you still get the same errors when installing wine-gecko.

[dimesio]

There was a regression in 1.1.0 that affected installation of wine-gecko: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14109
According to the bug report a patch has been committed, so it should be fixed in the next development release.
In the mean time, someone in another thread reported that installing it manually works:

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wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wine/wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab
cabextract -d ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/gecko/0.1.0/ wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab
wine iexplore www.winehq.org

[Ret]

Thanks for the replies and sorry about the double post, the first one timed out and when I checked for it it wasn't listed.

I will try out your suggestions.

[James McKenzie]

dimesio wrote:

There was a regression in 1.1.0 that affected installation of wine-gecko: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14109
According to the bug report a patch has been committed, so it should be fixed in the next development release.
In the mean time, someone in another thread reported that installing it manually works:

Code:
wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/s ... -0.1.0.cab
cabextract -d ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/gecko/0.1.0/ wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab
wine iexplore www.winehq.org

Thank you for the head up on this problem. This may help with some
troubleshooting I am doing on Wine 1.1 and a long standing issue.

James McKenzie