[cw-discuss] When will CrossOver be XP based

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Wednesday 09 May 2007 09:47:28 am Jeremy White wrote:
> Actually, we strongly recommend that any application that
> request IE be instead given the 'CrossOver HTML Engine'
> package.
>
> There is a good chance (and an increasing chance) that that
> will make applications happy.  And when it does, that should
> work more smoothly than IE itself.  (The CrossOver HTML
> Engine is a copy of Firefox wrapped to behave like IE
> for Windows applications).
>
> If that doesn't work, then installing IE may help an application.
> However, it's not easy to categorize exactly why that is.
>
> Sometimes the application has a direct dependence on IE
> and so it genuinely requires it.  Sometimes the application benefits
> from the use of some of the DLLs that IE uses.
>
> I'm just hoping that someday this is all a bad memory
> because the CrossOver HTML engine works perfectly
> every time <grin>.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy
>
This is a great tip that I somehow missed before, now I already have ie loaded 
into several bottles with the software that was requesting it, ie quickbooks 
pro 2003. Is there any way /is it safe to dump ie from those bottles and then 
install crossover html engine to take its place??

Mike