diff --git a/services/settings/RemoteSettingsClient.jsm b/services/settings/RemoteSettingsClient.jsm
index e042c71a6cff..5d60027d9ead 100644
--- a/services/settings/RemoteSettingsClient.jsm
+++ b/services/settings/RemoteSettingsClient.jsm
@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ const DB_NAME = "remote-settings";
 const TELEMETRY_COMPONENT = "remotesettings";
 
 XPCOMUtils.defineLazyGetter(this, "console", () => Utils.log);
+XPCOMUtils.defineLazyPreferenceGetter(
+  this,
+  "gServerURL",
+  "services.settings.server"
+);
 
 /**
  * cacheProxy returns an object Proxy that will memoize properties of the target.
@@ -272,7 +277,7 @@ class RemoteSettingsClient extends EventEmitter {
   }
 
   httpClient() {
-    const api = new KintoHttpClient(Utils.SERVER_URL);
+    const api = new KintoHttpClient(gServerURL);
     return api.bucket(this.bucketName).collection(this.collectionName);
   }
 
@@ -393,7 +398,7 @@ class RemoteSettingsClient extends EventEmitter {
   async sync(options) {
     // We want to know which timestamp we are expected to obtain in order to leverage
     // cache busting. We don't provide ETag because we don't want a 304.
-    const { changes } = await Utils.fetchLatestChanges(Utils.SERVER_URL, {
+    const { changes } = await Utils.fetchLatestChanges(gServerURL, {
       filters: {
         collection: this.collectionName,
         bucket: this.bucketName,
@@ -542,7 +547,7 @@ class RemoteSettingsClient extends EventEmitter {
           // Fetch changes from server, and make sure we overwrite local data.
           const strategy = Kinto.syncStrategy.PULL_ONLY;
           syncResult = await kintoCollection.sync({
-            remote: Utils.SERVER_URL,
+            remote: gServerURL,
             strategy,
             expectedTimestamp,
           });
diff --git a/services/settings/Utils.jsm b/services/settings/Utils.jsm
index 36da62856100..e42bca38b2a3 100644
--- a/services/settings/Utils.jsm
+++ b/services/settings/Utils.jsm
@@ -8,11 +8,6 @@ const { Services } = ChromeUtils.import("resource://gre/modules/Services.jsm");
 const { XPCOMUtils } = ChromeUtils.import(
   "resource://gre/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm"
 );
-ChromeUtils.defineModuleGetter(
-  this,
-  "AppConstants",
-  "resource://gre/modules/AppConstants.jsm"
-);
 
 XPCOMUtils.defineLazyGlobalGetters(this, ["fetch"]);
 
@@ -30,23 +25,7 @@ XPCOMUtils.defineLazyGetter(this, "log", () => {
   });
 });
 
-XPCOMUtils.defineLazyPreferenceGetter(
-  this,
-  "gServerURL",
-  "services.settings.server"
-);
-
 var Utils = {
-  get SERVER_URL() {
-    const env = Cc["@mozilla.org/process/environment;1"].getService(
-      Ci.nsIEnvironment
-    );
-    const isXpcshell = env.exists("XPCSHELL_TEST_PROFILE_DIR");
-    return AppConstants.RELEASE_OR_BETA && !Cu.isInAutomation && !isXpcshell
-      ? "https://firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com/v1"
-      : gServerURL;
-  },
-
   CHANGES_PATH: "/buckets/monitor/collections/changes/records",
 
   /**
diff --git a/services/settings/remote-settings.js b/services/settings/remote-settings.js
index 9e35627ef2ac..4327600946d3 100644
--- a/services/settings/remote-settings.js
+++ b/services/settings/remote-settings.js
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ XPCOMUtils.defineLazyGlobalGetters(this, ["fetch"]);
 
 const PREF_SETTINGS_DEFAULT_BUCKET = "services.settings.default_bucket";
 const PREF_SETTINGS_BRANCH = "services.settings.";
+const PREF_SETTINGS_SERVER = "server";
 const PREF_SETTINGS_DEFAULT_SIGNER = "default_signer";
 const PREF_SETTINGS_SERVER_BACKOFF = "server.backoff";
 const PREF_SETTINGS_LAST_UPDATE = "last_update_seconds";
@@ -69,6 +70,11 @@ XPCOMUtils.defineLazyGetter(this, "gPrefs", () => {
   return Services.prefs.getBranch(PREF_SETTINGS_BRANCH);
 });
 XPCOMUtils.defineLazyGetter(this, "console", () => Utils.log);
+XPCOMUtils.defineLazyPreferenceGetter(
+  this,
+  "gServerURL",
+  PREF_SETTINGS_BRANCH + PREF_SETTINGS_SERVER
+);
 
 /**
  * Default entry filtering function, in charge of excluding remote settings entries
@@ -222,7 +228,7 @@ function remoteSettingsFunction() {
 
     let pollResult;
     try {
-      pollResult = await Utils.fetchLatestChanges(Utils.SERVER_URL, {
+      pollResult = await Utils.fetchLatestChanges(gServerURL, {
         expectedTimestamp,
         lastEtag,
       });
@@ -369,7 +375,7 @@ function remoteSettingsFunction() {
     const {
       changes,
       currentEtag: serverTimestamp,
-    } = await Utils.fetchLatestChanges(Utils.SERVER_URL);
+    } = await Utils.fetchLatestChanges(gServerURL);
 
     const collections = await Promise.all(
       changes.map(async change => {
@@ -396,8 +402,8 @@ function remoteSettingsFunction() {
     );
 
     return {
-      serverURL: Utils.SERVER_URL,
-      pollingEndpoint: Utils.SERVER_URL + Utils.CHANGES_PATH,
+      serverURL: gServerURL,
+      pollingEndpoint: gServerURL + Utils.CHANGES_PATH,
       serverTimestamp,
       localTimestamp: gPrefs.getCharPref(PREF_SETTINGS_LAST_ETAG, null),
       lastCheck: gPrefs.getIntPref(PREF_SETTINGS_LAST_UPDATE, 0),