diff --git a/components/util/opts.rs b/components/util/opts.rs
index 10a2bd84a78..445b4abc280 100644
--- a/components/util/opts.rs
+++ b/components/util/opts.rs
@@ -56,8 +56,6 @@ pub struct Opts {
 
     pub nonincremental_layout: bool,
 
-    pub nossl: bool,
-
     /// Where to load userscripts from, if any. An empty string will load from
     /// the resources/user-agent-js directory, and if the option isn't passed userscripts
     /// won't be loaded
@@ -383,7 +381,6 @@ pub fn default_opts() -> Opts {
         mem_profiler_period: None,
         layout_threads: 1,
         nonincremental_layout: false,
-        nossl: false,
         userscripts: None,
         user_stylesheets: Vec::new(),
         output_file: None,
@@ -532,7 +529,6 @@ pub fn from_cmdline_args(args: &[String]) {
     };
 
     let nonincremental_layout = opt_match.opt_present("i");
-    let nossl = opt_match.opt_present("no-ssl");
 
     let mut bubble_inline_sizes_separately = debug_options.bubble_widths;
     if debug_options.trace_layout {
@@ -588,7 +584,6 @@ pub fn from_cmdline_args(args: &[String]) {
         mem_profiler_period: mem_profiler_period,
         layout_threads: layout_threads,
         nonincremental_layout: nonincremental_layout,
-        nossl: nossl,
         userscripts: opt_match.opt_default("userscripts", ""),
         user_stylesheets: user_stylesheets,
         output_file: opt_match.opt_str("o"),