diff --git a/packages/playwright-core/src/remote/playwrightServer.ts b/packages/playwright-core/src/remote/playwrightServer.ts
index 2155a0cdd7..4658c4589d 100644
--- a/packages/playwright-core/src/remote/playwrightServer.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright-core/src/remote/playwrightServer.ts
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ import type { Playwright } from '../server/playwright';
 import { createPlaywright } from '../server/playwright';
 import { PlaywrightConnection } from './playwrightConnection';
 import { assert } from '../utils';
-import { serverSideCallMetadata } from '../server/instrumentation';
 import type  { LaunchOptions } from '../server/types';
 import { ManualPromise } from '../utils/manualPromise';
 
@@ -64,34 +63,6 @@ export class PlaywrightServer {
   }
 
   async listen(port: number = 0): Promise<string> {
-    if (this._mode === 'reuse-browser') {
-      const callMetadata = serverSideCallMetadata();
-      const browser = await this._preLaunchedPlaywright!.chromium.launch(callMetadata, { headless: false });
-      const { context } = await browser.newContextForReuse({
-        viewport: {
-          width: 800,
-          height: 600
-        },
-        locale: 'en-US',
-        deviceScaleFactor: process.platform === 'darwin' ? 2 : 1
-      }, callMetadata);
-      const page = await context.newPage(callMetadata);
-      await page.mainFrame().setContent(callMetadata, `
-        <style>
-        html, body {
-          width: 100%;
-          height: 100%;
-        }
-        body {
-          display: flex;
-          flex-direction: column;
-          align-items: center;
-          justify-content: center;
-        }
-        </style>
-        <div>Playwright will use this page to run tests</div>`);
-    }
-
     const server = http.createServer((request, response) => {
       response.end('Running');
     });