diff --git a/toolkit/content/widgets/browser.xml b/toolkit/content/widgets/browser.xml
index 11ed998cca..7f23f7c98e 100644
--- a/toolkit/content/widgets/browser.xml
+++ b/toolkit/content/widgets/browser.xml
@@ -36,11 +36,15 @@
         <parameter name="fn"/>
         <body>
           <![CDATA[
-            this.inLoadURI = true;
-            try {
+            if (!this.isRemoteBrowser) {
+              this.inLoadURI = true;
+              try {
+                fn();
+              } finally {
+                this.inLoadURI = false;
+              }
+            } else {
               fn();
-            } finally {
-              this.inLoadURI = false;
             }
           ]]>
         </body>
@@ -296,7 +300,7 @@
       <method name="preserveLayers">
         <parameter name="preserve"/>
         <body>
-          <!-- Only useful for remote browsers. -->
+          // Only useful for remote browsers.
         </body>
       </method>
 
@@ -327,9 +331,8 @@
         </getter>
       </property>
 
-      <!-- stubbed to false until all callers are removed -->
       <property name="isRemoteBrowser"
-                onget="return false;"
+                onget="return (this.getAttribute('remote') == 'true');"
                 readonly="true"/>
 
       <property name="messageManager"
@@ -910,7 +913,7 @@
               os.addObserver(this, "browser:purge-session-history", true);
 
               // enable global history if we weren't told otherwise
-              if (!this.hasAttribute("disableglobalhistory")) {
+              if (!this.hasAttribute("disableglobalhistory") && !this.isRemoteBrowser) {
                 try {
                   this.docShell.useGlobalHistory = true;
                 } catch (ex) {
@@ -939,7 +942,9 @@
             this.relatedBrowser = relatedBrowser;
           }
 
-          this.addEventListener("pagehide", this.onPageHide, true);
+          if (!this.isRemoteBrowser) {
+            this.addEventListener("pagehide", this.onPageHide, true);
+          }
 
           if (this.messageManager) {
             this.messageManager.addMessageListener("PopupBlocking:UpdateBlockedPopups", this);
@@ -988,7 +993,9 @@
 
           this.lastURI = null;
 
-          this.removeEventListener("pagehide", this.onPageHide, true);
+          if (!this.isRemoteBrowser) {
+            this.removeEventListener("pagehide", this.onPageHide, true);
+          }
 
           if (this._autoScrollNeedsCleanup) {
             // we polluted the global scope, so clean it up
@@ -1274,6 +1281,9 @@
         <parameter name="aOtherBrowser"/>
         <body>
         <![CDATA[
+          if (this.isRemoteBrowser != aOtherBrowser.isRemoteBrowser)
+            throw new Error("Can only swap docshells between browsers in the same process.");
+
           // Give others a chance to swap state.
           // IMPORTANT: Since a swapDocShells call does not swap the messageManager
           //            instances attached to a browser to aOtherBrowser, others
@@ -1307,6 +1317,28 @@
             "_webNavigation"
           ];
 
+          if (this.isRemoteBrowser) {
+            fieldsToSwap.push(...[
+              "_remoteWebNavigation",
+              "_remoteWebNavigationImpl",
+              "_remoteWebProgressManager",
+              "_remoteWebProgress",
+              "_remoteFinder",
+              "_securityUI",
+              "_documentURI",
+              "_documentContentType",
+              "_contentTitle",
+              "_characterSet",
+              "_contentPrincipal",
+              "_imageDocument",
+              "_fullZoom",
+              "_textZoom",
+              "_isSyntheticDocument",
+              "_innerWindowID",
+              "_manifestURI",
+            ]);
+          }
+
           var ourFieldValues = {};
           var otherFieldValues = {};
           for (let field of fieldsToSwap) {
@@ -1329,10 +1361,27 @@
             aOtherBrowser[field] = ourFieldValues[field];
           }
 
-          // Null the current nsITypeAheadFind instances so that they're
-          // lazily re-created on access. We need to do this because they
-          // might have attached the wrong docShell.
-          this._fastFind = aOtherBrowser._fastFind = null;
+          if (!this.isRemoteBrowser) {
+            // Null the current nsITypeAheadFind instances so that they're
+            // lazily re-created on access. We need to do this because they
+            // might have attached the wrong docShell.
+            this._fastFind = aOtherBrowser._fastFind = null;
+          }
+          else {
+            // Rewire the remote listeners
+            this._remoteWebNavigationImpl.swapBrowser(this);
+            aOtherBrowser._remoteWebNavigationImpl.swapBrowser(aOtherBrowser);
+
+            if (this._remoteWebProgressManager && aOtherBrowser._remoteWebProgressManager) {
+              this._remoteWebProgressManager.swapBrowser(this);
+              aOtherBrowser._remoteWebProgressManager.swapBrowser(aOtherBrowser);
+            }
+
+            if (this._remoteFinder)
+              this._remoteFinder.swapBrowser(this);
+            if (aOtherBrowser._remoteFinder)
+              aOtherBrowser._remoteFinder.swapBrowser(aOtherBrowser);
+          }
 
           event = new CustomEvent("EndSwapDocShells", {"detail": aOtherBrowser});
           this.dispatchEvent(event);
@@ -1474,6 +1523,11 @@
           event.preventDefault();
         }
 
+        // No need to handle "dragover" in e10s, since nsDocShellTreeOwner.cpp in the child process
+        // handles that case using "@mozilla.org/content/dropped-link-handler;1" service.
+        if (this.isRemoteBrowser)
+          return;
+
         let linkHandler = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/content/dropped-link-handler;1"].
                             getService(Components.interfaces.nsIDroppedLinkHandler);
         if (linkHandler.canDropLink(event, false))
@@ -1482,7 +1536,9 @@
       </handler>
       <handler event="drop" group="system">
       <![CDATA[
-        if (!this.droppedLinkHandler || event.defaultPrevented)
+        // No need to handle "drop" in e10s, since nsDocShellTreeOwner.cpp in the child process
+        // handles that case using "@mozilla.org/content/dropped-link-handler;1" service.
+        if (!this.droppedLinkHandler || event.defaultPrevented || this.isRemoteBrowser)
           return;
 
         let name = { };
