diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 7c0761c..0fbdeb0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Offpunk History
 
+## 1.5 - Unreleased
+- Removed optional dependency to ripgrep. "grep --color=auto" is good enough.
+
 ## 1.4 - April 25th 2022
 - Making python-readability optional
 - Removing "next" and "previous" which are quite confusing and not obvious
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bca522c..cf945e1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ Dependencies to enable web browsing (packagers should put those in an offpunk-we
 Nice to have (packagers should probaly make those optional):
 * [Xsel](http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/software/xsel/) allows to `go` to the URL copied in the clipboard without having to paste it (both X and traditional clipboards are supported). Also needed to use the `copy` command. (apt-get install xsel)
 * [Python-setproctitle](https://github.com/dvarrazzo/py-setproctitle) will change the process name from "python" to "offpunk". Useful to kill it without killing every python service.
-* [RipGrep](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep) is used, if found, to add colours to your in-page searches ("find" or "/"). 
 
 ## Features
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index a07024d..d69bad3 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Depends:
  python3-bs4,
  ${misc:Depends},
  ${python3:Depends}
-Suggests: xsel, python3-setproctitle, python3-readability, ripgrep, chafa (>= 1.10.0), python3-pil
+Suggests: xsel, python3-setproctitle, python3-readability, chafa (>= 1.10.0), python3-pil
 Description: Offpunk is an offline-first browser for the smolnet
  A command-line and offline-first smolnet browser/feed reader for Gemini,
  Gopher, Spartan and Web.
diff --git a/offpunk.py b/offpunk.py
index 63d7327..26efe5b 100755
--- a/offpunk.py
+++ b/offpunk.py
@@ -211,9 +211,7 @@ _MAX_REDIRECTS = 5
 _MAX_CACHE_SIZE = 10
 _MAX_CACHE_AGE_SECS = 180
 
-_GREP = "grep"
-if shutil.which("rg"):
-    _GREP = "rg"
+_GREP = "grep --color=auto"
 less_version = 0
 if not shutil.which("less"):
     print("Please install the pager \"less\" to run Offpunk.")
@@ -3267,7 +3265,6 @@ Marks are temporary until shutdown (not saved to disk)."""
             output += " - python-pil          : " + has(_HAS_PIL)
         output += "\nNice to have:\n"
         output += " - python-setproctitle : " + has(_HAS_SETPROCTITLE)
-        output += " - ripgrep             : " + has(shutil.which("rg"))
         output += " - xsel                : " + has(_HAS_XSEL)
 
         output += "\nFeatures :\n"
diff --git a/ubuntu_dependencies.txt b/ubuntu_dependencies.txt
index bb9a7ad..afdb976 100644
--- a/ubuntu_dependencies.txt
+++ b/ubuntu_dependencies.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-sudo apt install less file xdg-utils xsel ripgrep chafa timg python3-cryptography python3-requests python3-feedparser python3-bs4 python3-readability python3-pil python3-setproctitle
+sudo apt install less file xdg-utils xsel chafa timg python3-cryptography python3-requests python3-feedparser python3-bs4 python3-readability python3-pil python3-setproctitle