diff --git a/packages/core/lib/asciidoctor/js/postscript.rb b/packages/core/lib/asciidoctor/js/postscript.rb
index 8050f0056..fe5f3bf25 100644
--- a/packages/core/lib/asciidoctor/js/postscript.rb
+++ b/packages/core/lib/asciidoctor/js/postscript.rb
@@ -4,5 +4,3 @@
 
 require 'asciidoctor/js/asciidoctor_ext'
 require 'asciidoctor/js/opal_ext/logger' # override the built-in Logger
-
-Asciidoctor::InlineLinkRx = %r((^|link:|#{Asciidoctor::CG_BLANK}|\\?&lt;(?=\\?(?:https?|file|ftp|irc)(:))|[>\(\)\[\];"'])(\\?(?:https?|file|ftp|irc)://)(?:([^\s\[\]]+)\[(|#{Asciidoctor::CC_ALL}*?[^\\])\]|(?!\2)([^\s]*?)&gt;|([^\s\[\]<]*([^\s,.?!\[\]<\)]))))