http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23510
--- Comment #2 from Dylan Smith dylan.ah.smith@gmail.com 2010-07-09 07:51:04 --- I can confirm that Google Talk seems to work around mshtml being disabled by using: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="mshtml=" wine googletalk.exe
That is a good workaround, and your patch may be correct, but unfortunately there is still a bug. This this should probably be kept open, or marked as a duplicate of another bug dependent on the same functionality.