diff --git a/ipc/glue/GeckoChildProcessHost.cpp b/ipc/glue/GeckoChildProcessHost.cpp
index 7442c566bd48..a273d05d4882 100644
--- a/ipc/glue/GeckoChildProcessHost.cpp
+++ b/ipc/glue/GeckoChildProcessHost.cpp
@@ -70,12 +70,20 @@
 #endif
 
 #ifdef ANDROID
+#include <sys/system_properties.h>
 #include "APKOpen.h"
 #endif
 
 using mozilla::MonitorAutoEnter;
 using mozilla::ipc::GeckoChildProcessHost;
 
+#ifdef ANDROID
+// Like its predecessor in nsExceptionHandler.cpp, this is
+// the magic number of a file descriptor remapping we must
+// preserve for the child process.
+static const int kMagicAndroidSystemPropFd = 5;
+#endif
+
 template<>
 struct RunnableMethodTraits<GeckoChildProcessHost>
 {
@@ -406,7 +414,22 @@ GeckoChildProcessHost::PerformAsyncLaunch(std::vector<std::string> aExtraOpts, b
   // fill the last arg with something if there's no cache
   if (cacheStr.IsEmpty())
     cacheStr.AppendLiteral("-");
-#endif
+
+  // Remap the Android property workspace to a well-known int,
+  // and update the environment to reflect the new value for the
+  // child process.
+  const char *apws = getenv("ANDROID_PROPERTY_WORKSPACE");
+  if (apws) {
+    int fd = atoi(apws);
+    mFileMap.push_back(std::pair<int, int>(fd, kMagicAndroidSystemPropFd));
+
+    char buf[32];
+    char *szptr = strchr(apws, ',');
+
+    snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%d%s", kMagicAndroidSystemPropFd, szptr);
+    newEnvVars["ANDROID_PROPERTY_WORKSPACE"] = buf;
+  }
+#endif  // ANDROID
 
   // remap the IPC socket fd to a well-known int, as the OS does for
   // STDOUT_FILENO, for example