diff --git a/extlib/html5shiv/MIT.txt b/extlib/html5shiv/MIT.txt
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index 5a2aeb47..00000000
--- a/extlib/html5shiv/MIT.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
-"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
-without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-the following conditions:
-
-The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
-included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
-NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
-LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
-OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/extlib/html5shiv/html5shiv.js b/extlib/html5shiv/html5shiv.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 8de0ff54..00000000
--- a/extlib/html5shiv/html5shiv.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-// HTML5 Shiv v3 | @jon_neal @afarkas @rem | MIT/GPL2 Licensed
-// Uncompressed source: https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv
-(function(a,b){var c=function(a){return a.innerHTML="<x-element></x-element>",a.childNodes.length===1}(b.createElement("a")),d=function(a,b,c){return b.appendChild(a),(c=(c?c(a):a.currentStyle).display)&&b.removeChild(a)&&c==="block"}(b.createElement("nav"),b.documentElement,a.getComputedStyle),e={elements:"abbr article aside audio bdi canvas data datalist details figcaption figure footer header hgroup mark meter nav output progress section summary time video".split(" "),shivDocument:function(a){a=a||b;if(a.documentShived)return;a.documentShived=!0;var f=a.createElement,g=a.createDocumentFragment,h=a.getElementsByTagName("head")[0],i=function(a){f(a)};c||(e.elements.join(" ").replace(/\w+/g,i),a.createElement=function(a){var b=f(a);return b.canHaveChildren&&e.shivDocument(b.document),b},a.createDocumentFragment=function(){return e.shivDocument(g())});if(!d&&h){var j=f("div");j.innerHTML=["x<style>","article,aside,details,figcaption,figure,footer,header,hgroup,nav,section{display:block}","audio{display:none}","canvas,video{display:inline-block;*display:inline;*zoom:1}","[hidden]{display:none}audio[controls]{display:inline-block;*display:inline;*zoom:1}","mark{background:#FF0;color:#000}","</style>"].join(""),h.insertBefore(j.lastChild,h.firstChild)}return a}};e.shivDocument(b),a.html5=e})(this,document)
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diff --git a/mediagoblin/static/js/extlib/html5shiv.js b/mediagoblin/static/js/extlib/html5shiv.js
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index ca7358c7..00000000
--- a/mediagoblin/static/js/extlib/html5shiv.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../../../../extlib/html5shiv/html5shiv.js
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diff --git a/mediagoblin/templates/mediagoblin/base.html b/mediagoblin/templates/mediagoblin/base.html
index 13433b33..66b95661 100644
--- a/mediagoblin/templates/mediagoblin/base.html
+++ b/mediagoblin/templates/mediagoblin/base.html
@@ -32,10 +32,6 @@
     <script type="text/javascript"
             src="{{ request.staticdirect('/js/header_dropdown.js') }}"></script>
 
-    <!--[if lt IE 9]>
-      <script src="{{ request.staticdirect('/js/extlib/html5shiv.js') }}"></script>
-    <![endif]-->
-
     {# For clarification, the difference between the extra_head.html template
      # and the head template hook is that the former should be used by
      # themes and the latter should be used by plugins.