diff --git a/lib/reporters/html.js b/lib/reporters/html.js
index 357970a77e..54e8c27a56 100644
--- a/lib/reporters/html.js
+++ b/lib/reporters/html.js
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 
 var Base = require('./base');
 var utils = require('../utils');
-var Progress = require('../browser/progress');
 var escapeRe = require('escape-string-regexp');
 var constants = require('../runner').constants;
 var EVENT_TEST_PASS = constants.EVENT_TEST_PASS;
@@ -38,7 +37,7 @@ exports = module.exports = HTML;
 
 var statsTemplate =
   '<ul id="mocha-stats">' +
-  '<li class="progress"><canvas width="40" height="40"></canvas></li>' +
+  '<li class="progress"></li>' +
   '<li class="passes"><a href="javascript:void(0);">passes:</a> <em>0</em></li>' +
   '<li class="failures"><a href="javascript:void(0);">failures:</a> <em>0</em></li>' +
   '<li class="duration">duration: <em>0</em>s</li>' +
@@ -68,26 +67,14 @@ function HTML(runner, options) {
   var failures = items[2].getElementsByTagName('em')[0];
   var failuresLink = items[2].getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
   var duration = items[3].getElementsByTagName('em')[0];
-  var canvas = stat.getElementsByTagName('canvas')[0];
   var report = fragment('<ul id="mocha-report"></ul>');
   var stack = [report];
-  var progress;
-  var ctx;
   var progressText;
   var root = document.getElementById('mocha');
 
-  if (canvas.getContext) {
-    var ratio = window.devicePixelRatio || 1;
-    canvas.style.width = canvas.width;
-    canvas.style.height = canvas.height;
-    canvas.width *= ratio;
-    canvas.height *= ratio;
-    ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
-    ctx.scale(ratio, ratio);
-    progress = new Progress();
-  } else {
+  {
     // On some broswers, canvas might be unavailable for whatever reason.
-    // As such, we need a text version as a fallback
+    // As such, we need text and progress
     var progressTextFallback = fragment('<li class="progress-text">progress: <em>0</em>%</li>');
     progressText = progressTextFallback.getElementsByTagName('em')[0];
     items[0].replaceWith(progressTextFallback);
@@ -122,10 +109,6 @@ function HTML(runner, options) {
   root.appendChild(stat);
   root.appendChild(report);
 
-  if (progress) {
-    progress.size(40);
-  }
-
   runner.on(EVENT_SUITE_BEGIN, function (suite) {
     if (suite.root) {
       return;
@@ -241,9 +224,7 @@ function HTML(runner, options) {
   function updateStats() {
     // TODO: add to stats
     var percent = ((stats.tests / runner.total) * 100) | 0;
-    if (progress) {
-      progress.update(percent).draw(ctx);
-    } else if (progressText) {
+    if (progressText) {
       // setting a toFixed that is too low, makes small changes to progress not shown
       // setting it too high, makes the progress text longer then it needs to
       // to address this, calculate the toFixed based on the magnitude of total