diff --git a/mozilla/embedding/components/build/nsEmbeddingModule.cpp b/mozilla/embedding/components/build/nsEmbeddingModule.cpp
index 2471141db58..e5469e876c5 100644
--- a/mozilla/embedding/components/build/nsEmbeddingModule.cpp
+++ b/mozilla/embedding/components/build/nsEmbeddingModule.cpp
@@ -40,13 +40,3 @@ static nsModuleComponentInfo components[] = {
 };
 
 NS_IMPL_NSGETMODULE("embedcomponents", components)
-
-#ifdef XP_WIN32
-  //in addition to returning a version number for this module,
-  //this also provides a convenient hook for the preloader
-  //to keep (some if not all) of the module resident.
-extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) float GetVersionNumber(void) {
-  return 1.0;
-}
-#endif
-