diff --git a/indra/newview/llappviewermacosx.cpp b/indra/newview/llappviewermacosx.cpp
index 4d340cafa9dfed9769b5a56382e32886a611fd35..c7b437598c2d55c7f90b3ee50ea641898a97c6ff 100755
--- a/indra/newview/llappviewermacosx.cpp
+++ b/indra/newview/llappviewermacosx.cpp
@@ -148,28 +148,13 @@ bool LLAppViewerMacOSX::initParseCommandLine(LLCommandLineParser& clp)
 	// The next two lines add the support for parsing the mac -psn_XXX arg.
 	clp.addOptionDesc("psn", NULL, 1, "MacOSX process serial number");
 	clp.setCustomParser(parse_psn);
-	
-    // First read in the args from arguments txt.
-    const char* filename = "arguments.txt";
-	llifstream ifs(filename, llifstream::binary);
-	if (!ifs.is_open())
-	{
-		llwarns << "Unable to open file" << filename << llendl;
-		return false;
-	}
-	
-	if(clp.parseCommandLineFile(ifs) == false)
-	{
-		return false;
-	}
 
-	// Then parse the user's command line, so that any --url arg can appear last
-	// Succesive calls to clp.parse... will NOT override earlier options. 
+	// parse the user's command line
 	if(clp.parseCommandLine(gArgC, gArgV) == false)
 	{
 		return false;
 	}
-    	
+
 	// Get the user's preferred language string based on the Mac OS localization mechanism.
 	// To add a new localization:
 		// go to the "Resources" section of the project