diff --git a/package/qt5/qt5webengine/Config.in b/package/qt5/qt5webengine/Config.in
index 57cbe301f0..28786bd2c8 100644
--- a/package/qt5/qt5webengine/Config.in
+++ b/package/qt5/qt5webengine/Config.in
@@ -9,13 +9,11 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_QT5WEBENGINE_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_QT5_JSCORE_AVAILABLE # qt5declarative
 	depends on !BR2_BINFMT_FLAT # qt5base-icu
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # libglib2, qt5base-dbus
-	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_LIBABSEIL_CPP_ARCH_SUPPORTS # re2
 
-comment "qt5webengine needs udev /dev management and a glibc toolchain w/ gcc >= 8, host gcc >= 4.9, dynamic library, threads, wchar"
+comment "qt5webengine needs udev /dev management and a glibc toolchain w/ host gcc >= 4.9, threads, wchar"
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_QT5WEBENGINE_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 	depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_UDEV || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC || \
-		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_8 || \
-		!BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 || BR2_STATIC_LIBS || \
+		!BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 || \
 		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || !BR2_USE_WCHAR
 
 comment "qt5webengine needs an OpenGL and EGL-capable backend"
@@ -25,10 +23,8 @@ comment "qt5webengine needs an OpenGL and EGL-capable backend"
 config BR2_PACKAGE_QT5WEBENGINE
 	bool "qt5webengine"
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_QT5WEBENGINE_ARCH_SUPPORTS
-	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # re2
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC # execinfo.h, mallinfo
 	depends on BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 # qt5base-icu
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_8 # re2
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # libglib2, libvpx, qt5base-dbus
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # libglib2
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_QT5_GL_AVAILABLE # qt5declarative, qt5base-eglfs
@@ -50,7 +46,6 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_QT5WEBENGINE
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBXSLT
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_MINIZIP
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_OPUS
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_RE2
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_SNAPPY
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_WEBP
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_WEBP_DEMUX
diff --git a/package/qt5/qt5webengine/qt5webengine.mk b/package/qt5/qt5webengine/qt5webengine.mk
index bccd460aa7..529a83df6c 100644
--- a/package/qt5/qt5webengine/qt5webengine.mk
+++ b/package/qt5/qt5webengine/qt5webengine.mk
@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ QT5WEBENGINE_DEPENDENCIES += \
 	libvpx \
 	libxml2 \
 	libxslt \
-	re2 \
 	snappy \
 	webp
 
@@ -104,7 +103,6 @@ QT5WEBENGINE_CONF_OPTS += \
 	-feature-webengine-system-ninja \
 	-feature-webengine-system-nss \
 	-feature-webengine-system-png \
-	-feature-webengine-system-re2 \
 	-feature-webengine-system-snappy \
 	-feature-webengine-system-zlib