diff --git a/toolkit/components/places/nsIBrowserHistory.idl b/toolkit/components/places/nsIBrowserHistory.idl
index ffc9839f0ad8..63f6092e3ff6 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/places/nsIBrowserHistory.idl
+++ b/toolkit/components/places/nsIBrowserHistory.idl
@@ -149,18 +149,6 @@ interface nsIBrowserHistory : nsIGlobalHistory2
      */
     void removeAllPages();
 
-    /**
-     * Hides the specified URL from being enumerated (and thus displayed in
-     * the UI).
-     *
-     * @param aURI
-     *        URI of the page to be marked.
-     *
-     * @note If the page hasn't been visited yet, then it will be added
-     *       as if it was visited, and then marked as hidden
-     */
-    void hidePage(in nsIURI aURI);
-
     /**
      * Designates the url as having been explicitly typed in by the user.
      *
diff --git a/toolkit/components/places/nsNavHistory.cpp b/toolkit/components/places/nsNavHistory.cpp
index 0dc05a63d35a..206acc479e7d 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/places/nsNavHistory.cpp
+++ b/toolkit/components/places/nsNavHistory.cpp
@@ -3214,21 +3214,6 @@ nsNavHistory::RemoveAllPages()
 }
 
 
-// nsNavHistory::HidePage
-//
-//    Sets the 'hidden' column to true. If we've not heard of the page, we
-//    succeed and do nothing.
-
-NS_IMETHODIMP
-nsNavHistory::HidePage(nsIURI *aURI)
-{
-  NS_ASSERTION(NS_IsMainThread(), "This can only be called on the main thread");
-  NS_ENSURE_ARG(aURI);
-
-  return NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED;
-}
-
-
 // Call this method before visiting a URL in order to help determine the
 // transition type of the visit.
 // Later, in AddVisitChain() the next visit to this page will be associated to
diff --git a/toolkit/components/places/tests/queries/head_queries.js b/toolkit/components/places/tests/queries/head_queries.js
index 575679bf6a96..72870426fbbd 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/places/tests/queries/head_queries.js
+++ b/toolkit/components/places/tests/queries/head_queries.js
@@ -139,10 +139,6 @@ function populateDB(aArray) {
             PlacesUtils.bhistory.markPageAsTyped(uri(qdata.uri));
           }
 
-          if (qdata.hidePage){
-            PlacesUtils.bhistory.hidePage(uri(qdata.uri));
-          }
-
           if (qdata.isPageAnnotation) {
             if (qdata.removeAnnotation) 
               PlacesUtils.annotations.removePageAnnotation(uri(qdata.uri),
@@ -276,7 +272,6 @@ function queryData(obj) {
   this.isDetails = obj.isDetails ? obj.isDetails : false;
   this.title = obj.title ? obj.title : "";
   this.markPageAsTyped = obj.markPageAsTyped ? obj.markPageAsTyped : false;
-  this.hidePage = obj.hidePage ? obj.hidePage : false;
   this.isPageAnnotation = obj.isPageAnnotation ? obj.isPageAnnotation : false;
   this.removeAnnotation= obj.removeAnnotation ? true : false;
   this.annoName = obj.annoName ? obj.annoName : "";