diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 599071f..15276b9 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 language: python
 python:
-  - "2.6"
   - "2.7"
 install: "pip install -r requirements.txt --use-mirrors && npm install acorn"
 script: nosetests
diff --git a/appvalidator/errorbundle/basebundle.py b/appvalidator/errorbundle/basebundle.py
index 4ec5b24..bc45abc 100644
--- a/appvalidator/errorbundle/basebundle.py
+++ b/appvalidator/errorbundle/basebundle.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import types
 import uuid
 from StringIO import StringIO
 
-import simplejson as json
+import json
 
 from .outputhandlers.shellcolors import OutputHandler
 from .. import unicodehelper
diff --git a/appvalidator/specs/webapps.py b/appvalidator/specs/webapps.py
index 9c1122d..f00b7a0 100644
--- a/appvalidator/specs/webapps.py
+++ b/appvalidator/specs/webapps.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import simplejson as json
+import json
 import types
 import urlparse
 
diff --git a/appvalidator/testcases/javascript/acorn.py b/appvalidator/testcases/javascript/acorn.py
index 62a937b..8e4150a 100644
--- a/appvalidator/testcases/javascript/acorn.py
+++ b/appvalidator/testcases/javascript/acorn.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import re
 import subprocess
 
-import simplejson as json
+import json
 
 from appvalidator.contextgenerator import ContextGenerator
 import appvalidator.unicodehelper as unicodehelper
diff --git a/appvalidator/testcases/javascript/spidermonkey.py b/appvalidator/testcases/javascript/spidermonkey.py
index 349d7f0..d2eb4a1 100644
--- a/appvalidator/testcases/javascript/spidermonkey.py
+++ b/appvalidator/testcases/javascript/spidermonkey.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import re
 import subprocess
 from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
 
-import simplejson as json
+import json
 
 from appvalidator.constants import SPIDERMONKEY_INSTALLATION
 from appvalidator.contextgenerator import ContextGenerator
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ def get_tree_from_spidermonkey(shell, code):
     data = unicodehelper.decode(data)
     try:
         return json.loads(data, strict=False)
-    except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError:
+    except ValueError:
         # Okay, maybe it was an encoding issue.
         data = run_with_tempfile(shell, code)
         data = unicodehelper.decode(data)
diff --git a/appvalidator/webapp.py b/appvalidator/webapp.py
index aa78b7c..ce395c6 100644
--- a/appvalidator/webapp.py
+++ b/appvalidator/webapp.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import simplejson as json
+import json
 
 import unicodehelper
 from .specs.webapps import WebappSpec
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index cc2f02c..32c8eb0 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 cssutils==0.9.7
 Fabric==0.9.0
 nose==1.0.0
-simplejson==2.3.0
 argparse==1.1
 -e git://github.com/mattbasta/fastchardet#egg=fastchardet
 mock==1.0b1
diff --git a/tests/test_controlchars.py b/tests/test_controlchars.py
index 95da743..7f10af6 100644
--- a/tests/test_controlchars.py
+++ b/tests/test_controlchars.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-from simplejson import JSONDecodeError
 import sys
 
 from nose.tools import eq_, nottest, raises
@@ -35,7 +34,7 @@ class TestControlChars(TestCase):
         self.assert_failed(with_warnings=True)
         eq_(self.err.warnings[0]["id"][2], "syntax_error")
 
-    @raises(JSONDecodeError)
+    @raises(ValueError)
     def test_controlchar_in_webapp(self):
         """
         Test that unescaped control characters cause parse errors in the webapp
diff --git a/tests/test_errorbundler.py b/tests/test_errorbundler.py
index e021a52..c722acf 100644
--- a/tests/test_errorbundler.py
+++ b/tests/test_errorbundler.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import sys
 from StringIO import StringIO
 
-import simplejson as json
+import json
 from mock import patch
 from nose.tools import eq_
 
diff --git a/tests/test_webapp.py b/tests/test_webapp.py
index f6a97b7..d1c8525 100644
--- a/tests/test_webapp.py
+++ b/tests/test_webapp.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import os
 import tempfile
 import types
 
-import simplejson as json
+import json
 from mock import patch
 from nose.tools import eq_