diff --git a/Changelog.md b/Changelog.md
index 2679ae40fc1ea08496a8ca411c0c4db2d83313d4..d18c5f595fd3e9d5755a567b9d235bc079f09d2e 100644
--- a/Changelog.md
+++ b/Changelog.md
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ Contributions are very welcome, the hard work is done!
 
 ## Features
 * Added the footer to conversation pages [#6710](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/6710)
+* Drop ChromeFrame and display an error page on old IE versions instead [#6751](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/6751)
 
 # 0.5.7.1
 
diff --git a/config.ru b/config.ru
index 9603dbba347ff055a06c508d5ed18609f7b2d42e..e2524860075a6d80a3bed0413e13a1e767f631a3 100644
--- a/config.ru
+++ b/config.ru
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
- #   Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Diaspora Inc.  This file is
+#   Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Diaspora Inc.  This file is
 #   licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or later.  See
 #   the COPYRIGHT file.
 
 # This file is used by Rack-based servers to start the application.
 
-require ::File.expand_path('../config/environment',  __FILE__)
-require ::File.expand_path('../lib/unicorn_killer',  __FILE__)
-require ::File.expand_path('../lib/rack/chrome_frame',  __FILE__)
+require ::File.expand_path("../config/environment",  __FILE__)
+require ::File.expand_path("../lib/unicorn_killer",  __FILE__)
+require ::File.expand_path("../lib/rack/internet_explorer_version", __FILE__)
 
-# Kill unicorn workers really agressively (at 300mb)
+# Kill unicorn workers really aggressively (at 300mb)
 if defined?(Unicorn)
   use UnicornKiller::Oom, 300 * 1024
 end
 use Rack::Deflater
-use Rack::ChromeFrame, :minimum => 8
+use Rack::InternetExplorerVersion, minimum: 9
 use Rack::Protection::FrameOptions
 
 run Diaspora::Application
diff --git a/lib/rack/chrome_frame.rb b/lib/rack/chrome_frame.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e4955cf8a02cb5d1e817099f4484942fb39cf5d..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/lib/rack/chrome_frame.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
-#   Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Diaspora Inc.  This file is
-#   licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or later.  See
-#   the COPYRIGHT file.
-
-module Rack
-  class ChromeFrame
-
-    def initialize(app, options={})
-      @app = app
-      @options = options
-    end
-
-    def call(env)
-
-      if env['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] =~ /MSIE/
-        if env['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] =~ /chromeframe/
-          status, headers, response = @app.call(env)
-          new_body = insert_tag(build_response_body(response))
-          new_headers = recalculate_body_length(headers, new_body)
-          return [status, new_headers, [new_body]]
-        elsif @options[:minimum].nil? or ie_version(env['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) < @options[:minimum]
-          html = <<-HTML
-            <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
-            <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
-              <head>
-                <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
-                <title>Diaspora doesn't support your version of Internet Explorer.  Try Chrome, Firefox, or Opera!</title>
-              </head>
-              <body>
-                <div id="cf-placeholder"></div>
-                <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/chrome-frame/1/CFInstall.min.js"></script>
-                <script>CFInstall.check({ node: "cf-placeholder" #{', destination: "' + @options[:destination] + '" ' if @options[:destination]}});</script>
-              </body>
-            </html>
-          HTML
-          return [200, {'Content-Type' =>  'text/html', 'Content-Length' => html.size.to_s}, Rack::Response.new([html])]
-        end
-      end
-      @app.call(env)
-    end
-
-    def build_response_body(response)
-      response_body = ""
-      response.each { |part| response_body += part }
-
-      # see: http://johnbintz.github.com/blog/2012/03/05/closing-given-body-in-rack-middleware/
-      response.close if response.respond_to?(:close)
-
-      response_body
-    end
-
-    def recalculate_body_length(headers, body)
-      new_headers = headers
-      new_headers["Content-Length"] = body.length.to_s
-      new_headers
-    end
-
-    def insert_tag(body)
-      head = <<-HEAD
-        <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1">
-      HEAD
-
-      body.gsub!(/<head(.*)>/, "<head\\1>\n" + head )
-      body
-    end
-
-    def ie_version(ua_string)
-      ua_string.match(/MSIE ?(\S+)/)[1].to_f
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/lib/rack/internet_explorer_version.rb b/lib/rack/internet_explorer_version.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4d3b4446838887aa01eeb92e4327f04de4a79839
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/rack/internet_explorer_version.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#   Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Diaspora Inc.  This file is
+#   licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or later.  See
+#   the COPYRIGHT file.
+
+module Rack
+  class InternetExplorerVersion
+    def initialize(app, options={})
+      @app = app
+      @options = options
+    end
+
+    def call(env)
+      if env["HTTP_USER_AGENT"] =~ /MSIE/ && ie_version(env["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]) < @options[:minimum]
+        html = <<-HTML
+          <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+          <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+            <head>
+              <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
+              <title>Diaspora doesn't support your version of Internet Explorer. Try Firefox, Chrome or Opera!</title>
+            </head>
+            <body>
+              <h1>Diaspora doesn't support your version of Internet Explorer.</h1>
+              You can use one of these browsers (and many more):
+              <ul>
+                <li><a href="https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/">Firefox</a></li>
+                <li><a href="https://www.google.com/chrome/">Chrome</a></li>
+                <li><a href="https://www.opera.com/">Opera</a></li>
+              </ul>
+            </body>
+          </html>
+        HTML
+        return [200, {"Content-Type" =>  "text/html", "Content-Length" => html.size.to_s}, Rack::Response.new([html])]
+      end
+      @app.call(env)
+    end
+
+    def ie_version(ua_string)
+      ua_string.match(/MSIE ?(\S+)/)[1].to_f
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/spec/lib/rack/chrome_frame_spec.rb b/spec/lib/rack/chrome_frame_spec.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index e7feaf15da19e8f4216cb730c1eab60227222fad..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/spec/lib/rack/chrome_frame_spec.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-#   Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Diaspora Inc.  This file is
-#   licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or later.  See
-#   the COPYRIGHT file.
-require 'spec_helper'
-
-describe Rack::ChromeFrame do
-
-  before :all do
-    @app = Rack::Builder.parse_file(Rails.root.join('config.ru').to_s).first
-  end
-
-  before :each do
-    @response = get_response_for_user_agent(@app, ua_string);
-  end
-
-  subject { @response }
-
-  context "non-IE browser" do
-    let(:ua_string) { "another browser chromeframe" }
-
-    it "shouldn't complain about the browser and shouldn't have chrome frame" do
-      expect(subject.body).not_to match(/chrome=1/)
-      expect(subject.body).not_to match(/Diaspora doesn't support your version of Internet Explorer/)
-    end
-  end
-
-  context "IE8 without chromeframe" do
-    let(:ua_string) { "MSIE 8" }
-
-    it "shouldn't complain about the browser and shouldn't have chrome frame" do
-      expect(subject.body).not_to match(/chrome=1/)
-      expect(subject.body).not_to match(/Diaspora doesn't support your version of Internet Explorer/)
-    end
-  end
-
-  context "IE7 without chromeframe" do
-    let(:ua_string) { "MSIE 7" }
-
-    it "should complain about the browser" do
-      expect(subject.body).not_to match(/chrome=1/)
-      expect(subject.body).to match(/Diaspora doesn't support your version of Internet Explorer/)
-    end
-    specify {expect(@response.headers["Content-Length"]).to eq(@response.body.length.to_s)}
-  end
-
-  context "any IE with chromeframe" do
-    let(:ua_string) { "MSIE number chromeframe" }
-
-    it "shouldn't complain about the browser and should have chrome frame" do
-      expect(subject.body).to match(/chrome=1/)
-      expect(subject.body).not_to match(/Diaspora doesn't support your version of Internet Explorer/)
-    end
-    specify {expect(@response.headers["Content-Length"]).to eq(@response.body.length.to_s)}
-  end
-
-  context "Specific case with no space after MSIE" do
-    let(:ua_string) { "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE8.0; Windows NT 6.0) .NET CLR 2.0.50727" }
-
-    it "shouldn't complain about the browser" do
-      expect(subject.body).not_to match(/Diaspora doesn't support your version of Internet Explorer/)
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/spec/lib/rack/internet_explorer_version_spec.rb b/spec/lib/rack/internet_explorer_version_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2bc7a75c0c7a7606310cf7525da9344ee5fdbe42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/lib/rack/internet_explorer_version_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+#   Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Diaspora Inc.  This file is
+#   licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or later.  See
+#   the COPYRIGHT file.
+require "spec_helper"
+
+describe Rack::InternetExplorerVersion do
+  before :all do
+    @app = Rack::Builder.parse_file(Rails.root.join("config.ru").to_s).first
+  end
+
+  subject { get_response_for_user_agent(@app, ua_string) }
+
+  context "non-IE browser" do
+    let(:ua_string) { "another browser chromeframe" }
+
+    it "shouldn't complain about the browser" do
+      expect(subject.body).not_to match(/Diaspora doesn't support your version of Internet Explorer/)
+    end
+  end
+
+  context "new IE" do
+    let(:ua_string) { "MSIE 9" }
+
+    it "shouldn't complain about the browser" do
+      expect(subject.body).not_to match(/Diaspora doesn't support your version of Internet Explorer/)
+    end
+  end
+
+  context "old IE" do
+    let(:ua_string) { "MSIE 7" }
+
+    it "should complain about the browser" do
+      expect(subject.body).to match(/Diaspora doesn't support your version of Internet Explorer/)
+    end
+
+    it "should have the correct content-length header" do
+      expect(subject.headers["Content-Length"]).to eq(subject.body.length.to_s)
+    end
+  end
+
+  context "Specific case with no space after MSIE" do
+    let(:ua_string) { "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE8.0; Windows NT 6.0) .NET CLR 2.0.50727" }
+
+    it "should complain about the browser" do
+      expect(subject.body).to match(/Diaspora doesn't support your version of Internet Explorer/)
+    end
+  end
+end