Do you think that Firefox will install over IE or is IE embedded in Windows and can not be removed?
Explorer and Internet Explorer share many DLLs, but the browser is still a seperate app from the OS. Anything can replace it without "overwriting" anything.
Mozilla Firefox has a long way to go yet.
Yeah, I get pissed when people say FireFox beats the pants off IE. IE's no prize, but FireFox is too damn buggy and has too many compliance issues to be crowned king just yet. I also really hate the download manager, and the profiles are very, very easy to corrupt, making it difficult to re-install the browser. Downgrading from 0.9 to 0.8 was a nightmare because un-installing 0.8 didn't clear out the profiles, and, I suppose, 0.9 didn't import them properly. Took me a couple hours to get the system cleaned up and 0.8 installed again. Grrr...
In a couple years it should be much better. It'll be interesting to see what IE7 looks like, if Microsloth ever gets off their butts and replaces IE6. How long has that browser been out?!
I say that because I can't remove the internet explorer (6) icon from my Windows desktop and move it to my 'programs' folder on my desktop as I do with all my programs
If you can't remove it by dragging it to the trash, you can probably use TweakUI. No Windows user should be without that utility.
Or be all cool and find yourself a tool to permanently erase IE6
Bad idea. It's always dangerous to use 3rd party tools to hack your OS.
Besides, windows update doesn't work without IE.
I thought there was a way around that. Microsoft is, finally, offering updates and patches for download, rather than forcing you to use install-on-demand.