diff --git a/java/src/org/openqa/selenium/remote/codec/AbstractHttpResponseCodec.java b/java/src/org/openqa/selenium/remote/codec/AbstractHttpResponseCodec.java
index b806dfc40935c..78b18f76e09d3 100644
--- a/java/src/org/openqa/selenium/remote/codec/AbstractHttpResponseCodec.java
+++ b/java/src/org/openqa/selenium/remote/codec/AbstractHttpResponseCodec.java
@@ -108,13 +108,6 @@ public Response decode(HttpResponse encodedResponse) {
       response.setValue(content);
     }
 
-    if (response.getValue() instanceof String) {
-      // We normalise to \n because Java will translate this to \r\n
-      // if this is suitable on our platform, and if we have \r\n, java will
-      // turn this into \r\r\n, which would be Bad!
-      response.setValue(((String) response.getValue()).replace("\r\n", "\n"));
-    }
-
     if (response.getStatus() != null && response.getState() == null) {
       response.setState(errorCodes.toState(response.getStatus()));
     } else if (response.getStatus() == null && response.getState() != null) {