diff --git a/test/browser/run-test.sh b/test/browser/run-test.sh
index 4fe6673..586583d 100644
--- a/test/browser/run-test.sh
+++ b/test/browser/run-test.sh
@@ -7,16 +7,6 @@ git init
 rm -f bots  # common local case: existing bots symlink
 make bots test/common
 
-# support running from clean git tree
-if [ ! -d node_modules/chrome-remote-interface ]; then
-    # copy package.json temporarily otherwise npm might try to install the dependencies from it
-    rm -f package-lock.json  # otherwise the command below installs *everything*, argh
-    mv package.json .package.json
-    # only install a subset to save time/space
-    npm install chrome-remote-interface
-    mv .package.json package.json
-fi
-
 # disable detection of affected tests; testing takes too long as there is no parallelization
 mv .git dot-git