diff --git a/mobile/android/base/AndroidManifest.xml.in b/mobile/android/base/AndroidManifest.xml.in
index 4345c657a349..5585235b9a29 100644
--- a/mobile/android/base/AndroidManifest.xml.in
+++ b/mobile/android/base/AndroidManifest.xml.in
@@ -289,10 +289,6 @@
         </activity>
 #endif
 
-        <activity android:name="org.mozilla.gecko.StartPane"
-                  android:theme="@style/GeckoStartPane"
-                  android:excludeFromRecents="true"/>
-
         <activity android:name="org.mozilla.gecko.webapp.Dispatcher"
             android:noHistory="true" >
             <intent-filter>
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/resources/values-large-v11/themes.xml b/mobile/android/base/resources/values-large-v11/themes.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index e60bbc1d100f..000000000000
--- a/mobile/android/base/resources/values-large-v11/themes.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<!-- This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
-   - License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
-   - file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. -->
-
-<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
-
-    <style name="GeckoStartPane" parent="Gecko.Dialog"/>
-    
-</resources>
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/resources/values/themes.xml b/mobile/android/base/resources/values/themes.xml
index 79db66aa0bc2..0e9b7dc537e0 100644
--- a/mobile/android/base/resources/values/themes.xml
+++ b/mobile/android/base/resources/values/themes.xml
@@ -104,8 +104,6 @@
         <item name="floatingHintEditTextStyle">@style/FloatingHintEditText</item>
     </style>
 
-    <style name="GeckoStartPane" parent="GeckoBase"/>
-
     <!-- Make an activity appear like an overlay. -->
     <style name="OverlayActivity" parent="Gecko">
         <item name="android:windowBackground">@android:color/transparent</item>