Good Morning, long time no see since I installed Firefox!

[Paper Roses]

Thinks are working far better and the funny freezes and other odd happenings have disappeared.
Internet Explorer still sits in my list of programs, can I delete it?

Also, I keep getting MS update notices. Will they disappear when I get rid of IE?

I have clicked on the update and the green line just goes and goes, nothing ever happens to show me any updates. Is this normal?

Thanks for any advice.
PR

[whyverne]

1. The updates are for your operating system (OS), firefox is just

your new browser. You still need updates. You should probably keep IE, in case Firefox isn't working. Personally I use 3 different browsers for different tasks, but I'm weird.

[canetoad]

2. Whyverne is right

There may be a time when you actually need to use IE, so no harm in letting it sit there.

You CAN delete all shortcuts to it though; on your taskbar, in your start menu, on your desktop. IE will still sit quietly in Program files.

What you DO need to do is go into 'Set Program Access and Defaults', found in your start menu or by looking at the sidebar of Add Remove Programs from Control Panel, click on the little arrow next to 'Custom' and set Firefox as your default browser. You can even remove access to IE here which stops any boxes saying 'Firefox is not your default browser....'.

[Warpy]

3. IE shares too much stuff with the OS for you to delete it

but think of it as an appendix, a vestigial organ that probably won't do any damage as it lurks in the intestines of your machine. If there are IE updates, you can elect not to install them, although I do just in case I ever want to drag it out and use it for something. Those updates are generally security patches that will allow you to surf more safely should you find something that won't work with Firefox, Chrome, Opera, or the other browsers out there.

[canetoad]

4. Is it true

that old nurses never die, they just turn their attentions to more challenging objects? :hi:

[Warpy]

5. I just put together a very complicated

production spinning wheel and am doing a tensioned lazy Kate to go with it at this moment (hands are sore, taking a break) so it must be so.

Yes, I have a spinning wheel sitting next to the computer. How Luddite is that?

I think we nurses are more like the old fishermen who never die, they just smell that way. It's the nature of the job.

[pokerfan]

6. I got rid of IE by ditching Windows altogether

http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_isadora_whatsnew.php