diff --git a/platform/webext/background.html b/platform/webext/background.html
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-<!DOCTYPE html>
-<html>
-<head>
-<meta charset="utf-8">
-<title>uBlock Origin</title>
-</head>
-<body>
-<script src="js/polyfill.js"></script>
-<script src="lib/punycode.js"></script>
-<script src="lib/publicsuffixlist.js"></script>
-<script src="js/vapi-common.js"></script>
-<script src="js/vapi-background.js"></script>
-<script src="js/vapi-cachestorage.js"></script><!-- Optional -->
-<script src="js/background.js"></script>
-<script src="js/utils.js"></script>
-<script src="js/uritools.js"></script>
-<script src="js/assets.js"></script>
-<script src="js/redirect-engine.js"></script>
-<script src="js/dynamic-net-filtering.js"></script>
-<script src="js/static-net-filtering.js"></script>
-<script src="js/url-net-filtering.js"></script>
-<script src="js/cosmetic-filtering.js"></script>
-<script src="js/hnswitches.js"></script>
-<script src="js/ublock.js"></script>
-<script src="js/messaging.js"></script>
-<script src="js/storage.js"></script>
-<script src="js/logger.js"></script>
-<script src="js/pagestore.js"></script>
-<script src="js/tab.js"></script>
-<script src="js/traffic.js"></script>
-<script src="js/contextmenu.js"></script>
-<script src="js/reverselookup.js"></script>
-<script src="js/rpcreceiver.js"></script>
-<script src="js/from-legacy.js"></script>
-<script src="js/start.js"></script>
-<script src="js/commands.js"></script>
-</body>
-</html>
