http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27650
--- Comment #14 from Thomas Spear Speeddymon@gmail.com 2011-11-25 05:55:33 CST --- With wine-1.3.33 from fedora updates-testing, with a clean ~/.wine the launcher still crashes inside wine. BTW, I feel I should mention that by crash here, I get the popup from wine and backtrace in console.
The actual Launcher.exe continues running and responding to mouse input, but it doesn't keep downloading. In fact, it doesn't even close fully when I've hit the close button. The window disappears, but it stays running. I let it go for ~40 minutes now and it was using 100% CPU (idle priority maybe? I didn't notice any slow down of my laptop), so then I finally killed it.
Removing ~/.wine, re-running winecfg, installing gecko, and then installing ie6 via winetracks still produces the same result (launcher crash with blizzard's submit box appearing to allow you to report the issue to Blizzard