ie causes annoying popups and its gay

all i use is fire fox

so would it be ok if i deleted it or would it fuck shit up?

It could fuck shit up, yeah.

Conflicts

One of Microsoft's arguments during the United States v. Microsoft trial was that removing Internet Explorer from Windows may result in system instability. At least one commentator supports this argument, and notes that removing Internet Explorer will also disable Windows Update, leaving the user without vital security updates to the operating system.[11] This overlooks the use of a 3rd party security update solution like the browser plugin WindizUpdate[12] that can check for and perform updates without using Windows Update. As well, almost all Windows Updates can be downloaded from the Microsoft homepage directly.

When removing Internet Explorer prior to Windows installation using nLite, there is a distinction between removing Internet Explorer and Internet Explorer Core. If the latter is not removed, core components needed for displaying HTML help files and other operating system tasks are not removed, but the web browser is removed from the system.

While the dominant market position of Windows and Internet Explorer may cause these arguments to appear insubstantial, this arrangement is not unique to Windows. Safari, the default browser on Mac OS X, is similarly integrated into the operating system. While it is possible to delete the application itself without problem, Safari is in fact merely a front-end for Apple's open source WebKit framework, which is heavily integrated into the operating system and cannot be removed.[13] However, certain other browsers available for use on the operating system are also built on WebKit. By contrast, the closed source Internet Explorer core can only be utilized by Internet Explorer, as well as Internet Explorer shells.

RDP, lock this.

It is not worthy of being in your oh-so-perfect forum.

Cockbitch.

Some pages don't display correctly - if at all - in Firefox, so it's good to keep IE just in case. I use Firefox mainly, but once a week or so I've got to revert to IE when Firefox doesn't like a website.

Just keep it, and don't use it.

Also, upgrade to version 7.x if you haven't already.

-deus-