Loading of Microsoft Applications on Ubuntu

[marc]

Chris Jones said:

> S RoyChoudhury wrote:
>> Hello ,
>> The Ubuntu is a very nice opr system . But many of the systems today
>> require IE ( Internet Explorer ) for access via web. Does anyone have
>> loaded IE on Ubuntu. I have heard of a software called WINE on Linux .
>> Anyone tried the same ?
> 
> Firefox has (or at least used to) a plugin that allows it to pretend to
> be IE. If this is still around this might even be a better 'IE' than the
> somewhat old IE version that wine supports.

Yup, but the plug-in uses the ie engine (of the user), so it's not 
availble for Linux.

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Best,
Marc