diff --git a/components/style/properties/helpers/animated_properties.mako.rs b/components/style/properties/helpers/animated_properties.mako.rs
index feda388935b..af32c77a64e 100644
--- a/components/style/properties/helpers/animated_properties.mako.rs
+++ b/components/style/properties/helpers/animated_properties.mako.rs
@@ -2871,25 +2871,6 @@ impl ToAnimatedZero for AnimatedFilter {
     }
 }
 
-// FIXME(nox): This should be derived.
-impl ComputeSquaredDistance for AnimatedFilter {
-    fn compute_squared_distance(&self, other: &Self) -> Result<SquaredDistance, ()> {
-        match (self, other) {
-            % for func in FILTER_FUNCTIONS:
-            (&Filter::${func}(ref this), &Filter::${func}(ref other)) => {
-                this.compute_squared_distance(other)
-            },
-            % endfor
-            % if product == "gecko":
-            (&Filter::DropShadow(ref this), &Filter::DropShadow(ref other)) => {
-                this.compute_squared_distance(other)
-            },
-            % endif
-            _ => Err(()),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 impl Animate for AnimatedFilterList {
     #[inline]
     fn animate(
diff --git a/components/style/values/generics/effects.rs b/components/style/values/generics/effects.rs
index b4fcbb0c505..a43e4f53ba2 100644
--- a/components/style/values/generics/effects.rs
+++ b/components/style/values/generics/effects.rs
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ pub struct BoxShadow<Color, SizeLength, BlurShapeLength, ShapeLength> {
 
 /// A generic value for a single `filter`.
 #[cfg_attr(feature = "servo", derive(Deserialize, Serialize))]
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, MallocSizeOf, PartialEq, ToAnimatedValue, ToComputedValue, ToCss)]
+#[derive(Clone, ComputeSquaredDistance, Debug, MallocSizeOf, PartialEq)]
+#[derive(ToAnimatedValue, ToComputedValue, ToCss)]
 pub enum Filter<Angle, Factor, Length, DropShadow> {
     /// `blur(<length>)`
     #[css(function)]
@@ -57,6 +58,7 @@ pub enum Filter<Angle, Factor, Length, DropShadow> {
     #[css(function)]
     DropShadow(DropShadow),
     /// `<url>`
+    #[animation(error)]
     #[cfg(feature = "gecko")]
     Url(SpecifiedUrl),
 }
diff --git a/components/style/values/mod.rs b/components/style/values/mod.rs
index e5ad8624015..95a9f7ef817 100644
--- a/components/style/values/mod.rs
+++ b/components/style/values/mod.rs
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ use selectors::parser::SelectorParseErrorKind;
 use std::fmt::{self, Debug, Write};
 use std::hash;
 use style_traits::{CssWriter, ParseError, StyleParseErrorKind, ToCss};
+use values::distance::{ComputeSquaredDistance, SquaredDistance};
 
 pub mod animated;
 pub mod computed;
@@ -66,6 +67,18 @@ where
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, ToComputedValue, ToCss)]
 pub enum Impossible {}
 
+// FIXME(nox): This should be derived but the derive code cannot cope
+// with uninhabited enums.
+impl ComputeSquaredDistance for Impossible {
+    #[inline]
+    fn compute_squared_distance(
+        &self,
+        _other: &Self,
+    ) -> Result<SquaredDistance, ()> {
+        match *self {}
+    }
+}
+
 impl Parse for Impossible {
     fn parse<'i, 't>(
         _context: &ParserContext,