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diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/icecat-bug-1427870-spectre-mitigation.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/icecat-bug-1427870-spectre-mitigation.patch
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index 6b088286cb..0000000000
--- a/gnu/packages/patches/icecat-bug-1427870-spectre-mitigation.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-Mitigate Spectre by reducing the resolution of performance.now() to 20
-microseconds.  Based on:
-
-  https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/rev/afa87f9be3a8
-
-For more details, see:
-
-  https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/03/mitigations-landing-new-class-timing-attack/
-
-This patch was modified to apply cleanly to GNU IceCat.
-
-
-# HG changeset patch
-# User Tom Ritter <tom@mozilla.com>
-# Date 1514660820 21600
-# Node ID afa87f9be3a8852da3a30f286b15ae599c7874f6
-# Parent  6caa457ebedc915b43dc1d054b8fe22e82ca7447
-Bug 1427870 - Change resolution of .now() to 20us. r=bkelly, a=lizzard
-
-The comment about workers was introduced in Bug 1186489 but became obsolete some time after that
-(definitely by Bug 1278838)
-
-diff --git a/dom/performance/Performance.cpp b/dom/performance/Performance.cpp
---- a/dom/performance/Performance.cpp
-+++ b/dom/performance/Performance.cpp
-@@ -234,20 +234,19 @@ Performance::ClearResourceTimings()
- {
-   MOZ_ASSERT(NS_IsMainThread());
-   mResourceEntries.Clear();
- }
- 
- DOMHighResTimeStamp
- Performance::RoundTime(double aTime) const
- {
--  // Round down to the nearest 5us, because if the timer is too accurate people
--  // can do nasty timing attacks with it.  See similar code in the worker
--  // Performance implementation.
--  const double maxResolutionMs = 0.005;
-+  // Round down to the nearest 20us, because if the timer is too accurate people
-+  // can do nasty timing attacks with it.
-+  const double maxResolutionMs = 0.020;
-   return floor(aTime / maxResolutionMs) * maxResolutionMs;
- }
- 
- 
- void
- Performance::Mark(const nsAString& aName, ErrorResult& aRv)
- {
-   // Don't add the entry if the buffer is full. XXX should be removed by bug 1159003.