Wish to Remove IE or at least get it out of the way.

[TechBoyJK]

I only want to use Mozilla, and totally want to remove IE, or at least the primary instance of it. I don't care if its still on my system, I just dont want to come across it. What is the best way to go about this?

Thanks!

 

[MrBond]

This might help:

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I just scanned the text of it quickly. If that's not it, try searching the MS Knowledge base there, they more than likly have an article on how to do it

 

[Argo]

Why would you want to remove IE? Most of the sites these days work the best on IE. I'm a developer working on an enterprise web application and we dropped netscape/mozilla support a while ago. Netscape simply doesn't support some of the features or if it does it makes development a pain in the a$$. So think twice before removing IE.

 

[tenoc]

Yeah, it would be wrong to completely remove it. Just make Mozilla the default browser.

 

[PrincessGuard]

The best you can do is delete the icons and change the default browser. You can partially remove it on a clean install using 98Lite but only on Win9x for now.

Removing IE completely is difficult since Windows Explorer and various other things, like Help, also use the IE engine.

 

[Nothinman]

Yeah, it would be wrong to completely remove it

No, it would be wrong to be a web developer and only support a single web browser that runs on a single OS, might as well just write a normal win32 application.

Removing IE completely is difficult since Windows Explorer and various other things, like Help, also use the IE engine.

At one point there was a guy who wrote a mozilla ActiveX control that implements all the interfaces that MSHTML exports. In theory it would be possible to remove IE and use Gecko in it's place all around the OS.

 

[Superwormy]

It would be wrong to be a web developer and only support a single web browser that runs on a single OS


I agree, I'm a web designer / web programmer and it is VERY IMPORTANT that we continue to support as many different browser types and operating systems as possible. Anyone who says differently is doing a half-a$$ed job and should be seriously ashamed of themselves.

 

[Argo]

Originally posted by: Superwormy
It would be wrong to be a web developer and only support a single web browser that runs on a single OS


I agree, I'm a web designer / web programmer and it is VERY IMPORTANT that we continue to support as many different browser types and operating systems as possible. Anyone who says differently is doing a half-a$$ed job and should be seriously ashamed of themselves.

Well, it came to the point where we had to limit certain functionality if we decided to continue supporting nescape. The decission came easy, considering that 97% of the users use IE.

 

[Slogun]

SP1 on WinXp, if that's what you have (you have no profile or rig posted), gave you the option of disabling IE and using another browser.

Start/Set Program Access and Defaults

 

[Nothinman]

Well, it came to the point where we had to limit certain functionality if we decided to continue supporting nescape. The decission came easy, considering that 97% of the users use IE

I understand the reasoning, but it only makes the 'problem' worse. The more sites that work just as well in Mozilla as they do in IE the easier it is for people to transition away from IE. Not even Mac OS X has IE6 last I looked, so you end up supporting a single platform from an protocol that is supposed to be platform independent. You might as well take it a half-step further and just compile it into a win32 pe executable.

SP1 on WinXp, if that's what you have (you have no profile or rig posted), gave you the option of disabling IE and using another browser.

Too bad it's a really poor attempt at disabling IE, you can get the same effect by having Mozilla make itself the default browser. And certaing things like HTML Help, Explorer HTML view, My Pictures, etc still use IE's rendering engine. It would be really nice if you could rip out MSHTML.dll and replace it with Gecko.