diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/views/composer/composer_view.js b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/views/composer/composer_view.js
index 3a9e2b6bd03..8b0fba501b4 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/views/composer/composer_view.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/views/composer/composer_view.js
@@ -321,90 +321,6 @@ Discourse.ComposerView = Discourse.View.extend(Ember.Evented, {
       Discourse.Utilities.displayErrorForUpload(data);
     });
 
-    // contenteditable div hack for getting image paste to upload working in
-    // Firefox. This is pretty dangerous because it can potentially break
-    // Ctrl+v to paste so we should be conservative about what browsers this runs
-    // in.
-    var uaMatch = navigator.userAgent.match(/Firefox\/(\d+)\.\d/);
-    if (uaMatch && parseInt(uaMatch[1]) >= 26) {
-      this.$().off('keydown.contenteditable');
-      this.$().on('keydown.contenteditable', function(event) {
-        // Catch Ctrl+v / Cmd+v and hijack focus to a contenteditable div. We can't
-        // use the onpaste event because for some reason the paste isn't resumed
-        // after we switch focus, probably because it is being executed too late.
-        if ((event.ctrlKey || event.metaKey) && (event.keyCode === 86)) {
-          // Save the current textarea selection.
-          var textarea = self.$("textarea")[0],
-              selectionStart = textarea.selectionStart,
-              selectionEnd   = textarea.selectionEnd;
-
-          // Focus the contenteditable div.
-          var contentEditableDiv = Ember.$("<div id='contenteditable' contenteditable='true' style='height: 0; width: 0; overflow: hidden'></div>");
-          self.$().append(contentEditableDiv);
-          self.$('#contenteditable').focus();
-
-          // The paste doesn't finish immediately and we don't have any onpaste
-          // event, so wait for 100ms which _should_ be enough time.
-          setTimeout(function() {
-            var pastedImg  = contentEditableDiv.find('img');
-
-            if ( pastedImg.length === 1 ) {
-              pastedImg.remove();
-            }
-
-            // For restoring the selection.
-            textarea.focus();
-            var textareaContent = $(textarea).val(),
-                startContent = textareaContent.substring(0, selectionStart),
-                endContent = textareaContent.substring(selectionEnd);
-
-            var restoreSelection = function(pastedText) {
-              $(textarea).val( startContent + pastedText + endContent );
-              textarea.selectionStart = selectionStart + pastedText.length;
-              textarea.selectionEnd = textarea.selectionStart;
-            };
-
-            if (contentEditableDiv.html().length > 0) {
-              // If the image wasn't the only pasted content we just give up and
-              // fall back to the original pasted text.
-              contentEditableDiv.find("br").replaceWith("\n");
-              restoreSelection(contentEditableDiv.text());
-            } else {
-              // Depending on how the image is pasted in, we may get either a
-              // normal URL or a data URI. If we get a data URI we can convert it
-              // to a Blob and upload that, but if it is a regular URL that
-              // operation is prevented for security purposes. When we get a regular
-              // URL let's just create an <img> tag for the image.
-              var imageSrc = pastedImg.attr('src');
-
-              if (imageSrc.match(/^data:image/)) {
-                // Restore the cursor position, and remove any selected text.
-                restoreSelection("");
-
-                // Create a Blob to upload.
-                var image = new Image();
-                image.onload = function() {
-                  // Create a new canvas.
-                  var canvas = document.createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml', 'canvas'),
-                      ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
-                  ctx.drawImage(image, 0, 0);
-
-                  canvas.toBlob(function(blob) {
-                    $uploadTarget.fileupload('add', {files: blob});
-                  });
-                };
-                image.src = imageSrc;
-              } else {
-                restoreSelection("<img src='" + imageSrc + "'>");
-              }
-            }
-
-            contentEditableDiv.remove();
-          }, 100);
-        }
-      });
-    }
-
     // I hate to use Em.run.later, but I don't think there's a way of waiting for a CSS transition
     // to finish.
     return Em.run.later(jQuery, (function() {