The ‘app’ you can’t trash: how SIP is broken in High Sierra

Re:The ‘app’ you can’t trash: how SIP is broken in High Sierra by digi_owl on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @05:55AM (#16060016)

Apple, protecting the user from himself?

As for removing IE. My understanding is that this would perhaps remove the UI and certain other assets, but the engine and various other bits would remain as the rest of the Windows UI relies on it.

Or at least that seemed to be the technical side of the claim that IE could not be removed during the antitrust trial.

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Re:The ‘app’ you can’t trash: how SIP is broken in High Sierra by pjc50 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @06:12AM (#16060068)

Yeah, IE has at least two parts: "mshtml.dll" which is the rendering engine, and "iexplore.exe" which is the UI frame around it. On my system mshtml is 23MB and iexplore is 800kB, so I think we can infer where most of the logic is.

Microsoft made the integrated help, "active desktop", and I think a few parts of Explorer depend on mshtml.dll.

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Re:The ‘app’ you can’t trash: how SIP is broken in High Sierra by pjmlp on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @06:19AM (#16060093)

As well as, what was the first wave of "Electron" apps, thankfully largely ignored.

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