diff --git a/src/controllers/uploads.js b/src/controllers/uploads.js
index f2896ec8f6..b50b851e90 100644
--- a/src/controllers/uploads.js
+++ b/src/controllers/uploads.js
@@ -34,9 +34,7 @@ uploadsController.upload = function (req, res, filesIterator) {
 			return res.status(500).send(err.message);
 		}
 
-		// IE8 - send it as text/html so browser won't trigger a file download for the json response
-		// malsup.com/jquery/form/#file-upload
-		res.status(200).send(req.xhr ? images : JSON.stringify(images));
+		res.status(200).send(images);
 	});
 };
 
diff --git a/src/views/admin/header.tpl b/src/views/admin/header.tpl
index ccf93afa3d..e6e92490f9 100644
--- a/src/views/admin/header.tpl
+++ b/src/views/admin/header.tpl
@@ -1,31 +1,24 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
-<head>
-	<title>{title}</title>
-	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
-
-	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{relative_path}/admin.css?{cache-buster}" />
-	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{relative_path}/vendor/mdl/mdl.min.css?{cache-buster}" />
-	<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons">
-
-	<script>
-		var RELATIVE_PATH = "{relative_path}";
-		var config = JSON.parse('{{configJSON}}');
-		var app = {
-			template: "{template.name}",
-			user: JSON.parse('{{userJSON}}'),
-			config: JSON.parse(decodeURIComponent("{{adminConfigJSON}}")),
-			flags: {},
-			inAdmin: true
-		};
-	</script>
-
-	<!--[if lt IE 9]>
-		<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/es5-shim/2.3.0/es5-shim.min.js"></script>
-		<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/html5shiv/3.7/html5shiv.js"></script>
-		<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/respond.js/1.4.2/respond.js"></script>
-		<script>__lt_ie_9__ = 1;</script>
-	<![endif]-->
+	<head>
+		<title>{title}</title>
+		<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
+	
+		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{relative_path}/admin.css?{cache-buster}" />
+		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{relative_path}/vendor/mdl/mdl.min.css?{cache-buster}" />
+		<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons">
+	
+		<script>
+			var RELATIVE_PATH = "{relative_path}";
+			var config = JSON.parse('{{configJSON}}');
+			var app = {
+				template: "{template.name}",
+				user: JSON.parse('{{userJSON}}'),
+				config: JSON.parse(decodeURIComponent("{{adminConfigJSON}}")),
+				flags: {},
+				inAdmin: true
+			};
+		</script>
 
 		<script src="https://storage.googleapis.com/code.getmdl.io/1.0.3/material.min.js"></script>
 		<script type="text/javascript" src="{relative_path}/vendor/jquery/sortable/Sortable.js?{cache-buster}"></script>
diff --git a/src/views/install/index.tpl b/src/views/install/index.tpl
index cb5b69dbcb..f960c70440 100644
--- a/src/views/install/index.tpl
+++ b/src/views/install/index.tpl
@@ -11,13 +11,6 @@
 	<link rel="stylesheet" href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
 	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css">
 
-
-	<!--[if lt IE 9]>
-  		<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/es5-shim/2.3.0/es5-shim.min.js"></script>
-  		<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/html5shiv/3.7/html5shiv.js"></script>
-  		<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/respond.js/1.4.2/respond.js"></script>
-  		<script>__lt_ie_9__ = 1;</script>
-	<![endif]-->
 </head>
 
 <body>
