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With Windows 10 we now have 3 browsers installed, IE, Edge and Chredge. Why doesn’t MS remove the outdated browsers rather than just adding another. While perhaps IE remains for some sort of compatibility issues, it is rather dated and insecure.
I’m irritated to have 3 MS browsers on my systems and use none of them.
Any thoughts on when the old browser versions might be removed or made removable?
The old Edge is removed when installing the new ChrEdge.
You have only 2 MS browsers.
You should be able to use Control Panel | Programs | Turn Windows features on or off to disable IE or you can use Settings | Apps | Optional features to Uninstall IE.
--Joe
or you can use Settings | Apps | Optional features to Uninstall IE.
–Joe
IE can’t be uninstalled, only somewhat disabled.
If you use a web browser control in e.g. Access, that will run in IE whether or not that is your default browser – for security I would hope it isn’t! For that reason alone, IE cannot be completely removed from your computer.
Having said that, a new web browser control based on Chromium Edge will be released in Dec 2020. Perhaps after that it will be possible to bin IE completely?
Optional features to Uninstall IE
Uninstalling IE, if it is indeed possible, will cause problems if you also use Outlook (the program, not the web site). For no discernable reason, even with Microsoft 365/Office 2016, when you view a message in a web browser, that Browser is still IE.
(If anyone knows how to get Outlook to use (Chr)Edge as Outlook’s message viewer, please share!
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