I had that working for the last year or so, for the exact same reason. But for a few weeks now my wine'd Chrome can no longer access any page, as if it can't access the network or something. Tried reinstalling it, but that didn't help either. Any ideas?
No idea, it just worked for me. Then again, I did use Lutris to get the wine env set up so maybe that's doing something to work around bugs? I basically threw the latest version of Wine staging at it. I remember having issues running the installer, but after a couple of tries it just started working.