diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/vimprobable2/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/vimprobable2/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 8a2e164b363..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/vimprobable2/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, makeWrapper, glib-networking, gtk2, libsoup, libX11, perl,
-  pkgconfig, webkitgtk, gsettings-desktop-schemas }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "1.4.2";
-  pname = "vimprobable2";
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/vimprobable/vimprobable2_${version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "13jdximksh9r3cgd2f8vms0pbsn3x0gxvyqdqiw16xp5fmdx5kzr";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-  buildInputs = [ makeWrapper gtk2 libsoup libX11 perl webkitgtk gsettings-desktop-schemas ];
-
-  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
-
-  installFlags = "PREFIX=/ DESTDIR=$(out)";
-
-  preFixup = ''
-    wrapProgram "$out/bin/vimprobable2" \
-      --prefix GIO_EXTRA_MODULES : "${glib-networking.out}/lib/gio/modules" \
-      --prefix XDG_DATA_DIRS : "$GSETTINGS_SCHEMAS_PATH"
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    description = ''
-      Vimprobable is a web browser that behaves like the Vimperator plugin
-      available for Mozilla Firefox
-    '';
-    longDescription = ''
-      Vimprobable is a web browser that behaves like the Vimperator plugin
-      available for Mozilla Firefox. It is based on the WebKit engine (using
-      GTK bindings). The goal of Vimprobable is to build a completely
-      keyboard-driven, efficient and pleasurable browsing-experience. Its
-      featureset might be considered "minimalistic", but not as minimalistic as
-      being completely featureless.
-    '';
-    homepage = https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/vimprobable;
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.aforemny ];
-    platforms = with stdenv.lib.platforms; linux;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index cc92b56da57..16b6460c407 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -417,7 +417,8 @@ mapAliases ({
   v8_3_16_14 = throw "removed 2019-11-01: no longer referenced by other packages";
   valadoc = throw "deprecated 2019-10-10: valadoc was merged into vala 0.38";
   vimbWrapper = vimb; # added 2015-01
-  vimprobable2Wrapper = vimprobable2; # added 2015-01
+  vimprobable2 = throw "vimprobable2 has been removed from nixpkgs. It relied on webkitgtk24x that has been removed."; # added 2019-12-05
+  vimprobable2-unwrapped = vimprobable2; # added 2019-12-05
   virtviewer = virt-viewer; # added 2015-12-24
   virtmanager = virt-manager; # added 2019-10-29
   virtmanager-qt = virt-manager-qt; # added 2019-10-29
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 488fdb046cd..526e7832e09 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6942,7 +6942,7 @@ in
 
   vifm = callPackage ../applications/misc/vifm { };
 
-  vifm-full = callPackage ../applications/misc/vifm { 
+  vifm-full = callPackage ../applications/misc/vifm {
     mediaSupport = true;
     inherit lib udisks2 python3;
   };
@@ -25184,11 +25184,6 @@ in
     llvmPackages = llvmPackages_6;
   });
 
-  vimprobable2-unwrapped = callPackage ../applications/networking/browsers/vimprobable2 {
-    webkitgtk = webkitgtk24x-gtk2;
-  };
-  vimprobable2 = wrapFirefox vimprobable2-unwrapped { };
-
   vimb-unwrapped = callPackage ../applications/networking/browsers/vimb { };
   vimb = wrapFirefox vimb-unwrapped { };