diff --git a/firefox.spec b/firefox.spec
index e2b617a..26c57a1 100644
--- a/firefox.spec
+++ b/firefox.spec
@@ -106,7 +106,6 @@ Source23:       firefox.1
 Patch0:         firefox-install-dir.patch
 Patch3:         mozilla-build-arm.patch
 Patch14:        xulrunner-2.0-chromium-types.patch
-Patch17:        xulrunner-24.0-gcc47.patch
 # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814879#c3
 Patch18:        xulrunner-24.0-jemalloc-ppc.patch
 # workaround linking issue on s390 (JSContext::updateMallocCounter(size_t) not found)
@@ -221,7 +220,6 @@ cd %{tarballdir}
 %patch3  -p2 -b .arm
 %endif
 %patch14 -p2 -b .chromium-types
-%patch17 -p1 -b .gcc47
 %patch18 -p2 -b .jemalloc-ppc
 %patch19 -p2 -b .s390-inlines
 
diff --git a/xulrunner-24.0-gcc47.patch b/xulrunner-24.0-gcc47.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 28de75f..0000000
--- a/xulrunner-24.0-gcc47.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff -up mozilla-release/toolkit/crashreporter/client/Makefile.in.gcc47 mozilla-release/toolkit/crashreporter/client/Makefile.in
---- mozilla-release/toolkit/crashreporter/client/Makefile.in.gcc47	2013-12-09 15:12:50.659231760 +0100
-+++ mozilla-release/toolkit/crashreporter/client/Makefile.in	2013-12-09 15:13:45.448324783 +0100
-@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ endif
- 
- ifdef MOZ_WIDGET_GTK
- 
-+# Needed for moz_free
-+LIBS += -L$(LIBXUL_DIST)/lib -lmozalloc
-+
- LIBS += \
-   $(DEPTH)/toolkit/crashreporter/google-breakpad/src/common/linux/$(LIB_PREFIX)breakpad_linux_common_s.$(LIB_SUFFIX) \
-   $(NULL)