diff --git a/inc/html.php b/inc/html.php
index 08e46fe24996ead5652bc29ccadbbdbb410ad83a..1a0963afa602eacd10a0484ce1ed772b53e16d9c 100644
--- a/inc/html.php
+++ b/inc/html.php
@@ -368,15 +368,6 @@ function html_search(){
         $intro
     );
     echo $intro;
-    flush();
-
-    //show progressbar
-    print '<div id="dw__loading">'.NL;
-    print '<script type="text/javascript">/*<![CDATA[*/'.NL;
-    print 'showLoadBar();'.NL;
-    print '/*!]]>*/</script>'.NL;
-    print '</div>'.NL;
-    flush();
 
     //do quick pagesearch
     $data = ft_pageLookup($QUERY,true,useHeading('navigation'));
@@ -404,7 +395,6 @@ function html_search(){
         print '<div class="clearer"></div>';
         print '</div>';
     }
-    flush();
 
     //do fulltext search
     $regex = array();
@@ -425,18 +415,11 @@ function html_search(){
                 }
                 $num++;
             }
-            flush();
         }
         print '</dl>';
     }else{
         print '<div class="nothing">'.$lang['nothingfound'].'</div>';
     }
-
-    //hide progressbar
-    print '<script type="text/javascript">/*<![CDATA[*/'.NL;
-    print 'hideLoadBar("dw__loading");'.NL;
-    print '/*!]]>*/</script>'.NL;
-    flush();
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/lib/images/loading.gif b/lib/images/loading.gif
deleted file mode 100644
index 35058e20f0fa29fb426d56dc31cfb36fa2af417d..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Binary files a/lib/images/loading.gif and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/lib/scripts/script.js b/lib/scripts/script.js
index 5fddb0431de209770ab0ef3900065f51cf18629c..97edef0b7c64d95ad6794c74abd6f2b212de17a0 100644
--- a/lib/scripts/script.js
+++ b/lib/scripts/script.js
@@ -18,39 +18,6 @@ if (clientPC.indexOf('opera')!=-1) {
     var is_opera_seven = (window.opera && document.childNodes);
 }
 
-/**
- * Prints a animated gif to show the search is performed
- *
- * Because we need to modify the DOM here before the document is loaded
- * and parsed completely we have to rely on document.write()
- *
- * @author Andreas Gohr <andi@splitbrain.org>
- */
-function showLoadBar(){
-
-  document.write('<img src="'+DOKU_BASE+'lib/images/loading.gif" '+
-                 'width="150" height="12" alt="..." />');
-
-  /* this does not work reliable in IE
-  obj = $(id);
-
-  if(obj){
-    obj.innerHTML = '<img src="'+DOKU_BASE+'lib/images/loading.gif" '+
-                    'width="150" height="12" alt="..." />';
-    obj.style.display="block";
-  }
-  */
-}
-
-/**
- * Disables the animated gif to show the search is done
- *
- * @author Andreas Gohr <andi@splitbrain.org>
- */
-function hideLoadBar(id){
-  jQuery('#' + id).hide();
-}
-
 /**
  * Handler to close all open Popups
  */