diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/webkitgtk/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/webkitgtk/default.nix
index 8f8551ac9b6..b742be27f74 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/webkitgtk/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/webkitgtk/default.nix
@@ -3,10 +3,12 @@
 , gtk2, gtk3, wayland, libwebp, enchant
 , libxml2, libsoup, libsecret, libxslt, harfbuzz
 , gst-plugins-base
+, withGtk2 ? false
+, enableIntrospection ? true
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "webkitgtk-2.2.4";
+  name = "webkitgtk-2.4.0";
 
   meta = {
     description = "Web content rendering engine, GTK+ port";
@@ -18,7 +20,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://webkitgtk.org/releases/${name}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "0x2d9hds5yazwdakkhrh3dk5qxscb169imi056q2qq53zhdyw6jy";
+    sha256 = "1fyz6ysw7npy5wa7m1zg05zrj0gi0wdlpjbqix03iq4ym36pflnw";
   };
 
   patches = [ ./webcore-svg-libxml-cflags.patch ];
@@ -31,9 +33,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     done
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = [
+  configureFlags = with stdenv.lib; [
     "--disable-geolocation"
-    "--enable-introspection"
+    (optionalString enableIntrospection "--enable-introspection")
+  ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional withGtk2 [
+    "--with-gtk=2.0"
+    "--disable-webkit2"
   ];
 
   dontAddDisableDepTrack = true;
@@ -49,7 +54,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     gst-plugins-base
   ];
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ gtk3 libsoup ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    libsoup
+    (if withGtk2 then gtk2 else gtk3)
+  ];
 
   #enableParallelBuilding = true; # build problems on Hydra
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 56c796a25d2..2fb102cbed1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5928,6 +5928,11 @@ let
     gst-plugins-base = gst_all_1.gst-plugins-base;
   };
 
+  webkitgtk2 = webkitgtk.override {
+    withGtk2 = true;
+    enableIntrospection = false;
+  };
+
   wildmidi = callPackage ../development/libraries/wildmidi { };
 
   wvstreams = callPackage ../development/libraries/wvstreams { };