http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17524
--- Comment #16 from David Eccles (gringer) winehq@gringer.org 2009-10-11 18:10:28 --- If a standard exe works on windows, but not on wine, then I would consider that to be a bug in wine, even if an alternate exe will work under wine.
FWIW, I was designing a CD containing free software for Windows, and wanted to test it using Linux. Using a w9x version for this CD when a "better" version is available seems like an odd compromise.
Anyway, I've re-tested on latest wine on my Debian box (ubuntu budgetdedicated version of 1.1.31, debian lamaresh version of 1.1.30). Strictly (using my above definition), this bug still exists, as I get a crash using K-Meleon1.5.2en-US.7z. However, the more recent version of k-meleon available on the website (1.5.3) *does* work.
In short, the k-meleon update has fixed the problem I had, but the more specific bug I reported here still seems to exist on my computer.