diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 8497a7c8..c1c373fe 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "@babel/runtime": "^7.16.7",
-        "bowser": "2.11.0",
         "lodash-es": "^4.17.21"
       },
       "devDependencies": {
@@ -3295,11 +3294,6 @@
         "multicast-dns": "^7.2.5"
       }
     },
-    "node_modules/bowser": {
-      "version": "2.11.0",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/bowser/-/bowser-2.11.0.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-AlcaJBi/pqqJBIQ8U9Mcpc9i8Aqxn88Skv5d+xBX006BY5u8N3mGLHa5Lgppa7L/HfwgwLgZ6NYs+Ag6uUmJRA=="
-    },
     "node_modules/brace-expansion": {
       "version": "1.1.11",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/brace-expansion/-/brace-expansion-1.1.11.tgz",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 093e6e68..3afffb4a 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
   "version": "0.0.0-development",
   "dependencies": {
     "@babel/runtime": "^7.16.7",
-    "bowser": "2.11.0",
     "lodash-es": "^4.17.21"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
diff --git a/src/core.js b/src/core.js
index c6142cc7..34246de9 100644
--- a/src/core.js
+++ b/src/core.js
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import Cursor from './cursor'
 import highlightSupport from './highlight-support'
 import MonitoredHighlighting from './monitored-highlighting'
 import createDefaultEvents from './create-default-events'
-import browser from 'bowser'
 import {textNodesUnder, getTextNodeAndRelativeOffset} from './util/element'
 import {binaryCursorSearch} from './util/binary_search'
 import {domArray, createRange, nodeContainsRange} from './util/dom'
@@ -513,7 +512,6 @@ export class Editable {
 // Expose modules and editable
 Editable.parser = parser
 Editable.content = content
-Editable.browser = browser
 
 // Set up callback functions for several events.
 ;['focus', 'blur', 'flow', 'selection', 'cursor', 'newline',
diff --git a/src/feature-detection.js b/src/feature-detection.js
index 3f7f0add..bd8c13cc 100644
--- a/src/feature-detection.js
+++ b/src/feature-detection.js
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-import browser from 'bowser'
-
 /**
 * Check for contenteditable support
 *
@@ -10,9 +8,13 @@ import browser from 'bowser'
 */
 export const contenteditable = typeof document.documentElement.contentEditable !== 'undefined'
 
-const parser = browser.getParser(window.navigator.userAgent)
-const browserEngine = parser.getEngineName()
-const webKit = browserEngine === 'WebKit'
+// Detect webkit browser engine
+// That way we can detect the contenteditable span bug on safari, but exclude chrome
+// Regex taken from: https://github.com/lancedikson/bowser/blob/f09411489ced05811c91cc6670a8e4ca9cbe39a7/src/parser-engines.js#L93-L106
+// Attention, this might be error prone as any engine version change breaks this.
+const isBlink = /(apple)?webkit\/537\.36/i.test(window.navigator.userAgent)
+const isWebkit = /(apple)?webkit/i.test(window.navigator.userAgent)
+const webKit = !isBlink && isWebkit
 
 /**
  * Check selectionchange event (supported in IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari)