diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 265eba78985a..a49164567f70 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3288,6 +3288,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "ruffle_video_software",
  "ruffle_web_common",
  "serde",
+ "serde-wasm-bindgen",
  "thiserror",
  "url",
  "wasm-bindgen",
@@ -3430,6 +3431,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_derive",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "serde-wasm-bindgen"
+version = "0.4.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1cfc62771e7b829b517cb213419236475f434fb480eddd76112ae182d274434a"
+dependencies = [
+ "js-sys",
+ "serde",
+ "wasm-bindgen",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "serde-xml-rs"
 version = "0.6.0"
@@ -4013,8 +4025,6 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "fc7652e3f6c4706c8d9cd54832c4a4ccb9b5336e2c3bd154d5cccfbf1c1f5f7d"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg-if 1.0.0",
- "serde",
- "serde_json",
  "wasm-bindgen-macro",
 ]
 
diff --git a/web/Cargo.toml b/web/Cargo.toml
index fad93a3cae22..6c25408881f0 100644
--- a/web/Cargo.toml
+++ b/web/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,13 +38,14 @@ ruffle_render_webgl = { path = "../render/webgl", optional = true }
 ruffle_render_wgpu = { path = "../render/wgpu", optional = true }
 ruffle_video_software = { path = "../video/software" }
 url = "2.3.1"
-wasm-bindgen = { version = "=0.2.82", features = ["serde-serialize"] }
+wasm-bindgen = { version = "=0.2.82" }
 wasm-bindgen-futures = "0.4.32"
 chrono = { version = "0.4", features = ["wasmbind"] }
 getrandom = { version = "0.2", features = ["js"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0.144", features = ["derive"] }
 thiserror = "1.0"
 base64 = "0.13.0"
+serde-wasm-bindgen = "0.4.3"
 
 [dependencies.ruffle_core]
 path = "../core"
diff --git a/web/src/lib.rs b/web/src/lib.rs
index 6db0a16bbdef..61db47d45a31 100644
--- a/web/src/lib.rs
+++ b/web/src/lib.rs
@@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ pub struct Ruffle(Index);
 impl Ruffle {
     #[allow(clippy::new_ret_no_self)]
     #[wasm_bindgen(constructor)]
-    pub fn new(parent: HtmlElement, js_player: JavascriptPlayer, config: &JsValue) -> Promise {
-        let config: Config = config.into_serde().unwrap_or_default();
+    pub fn new(parent: HtmlElement, js_player: JavascriptPlayer, config: JsValue) -> Promise {
+        let config: Config = serde_wasm_bindgen::from_value(config).unwrap_or_default();
         wasm_bindgen_futures::future_to_promise(async move {
             if RUFFLE_GLOBAL_PANIC.is_completed() {
                 // If an actual panic happened, then we can't trust the state it left us in.
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ impl Ruffle {
     pub fn prepare_context_menu(&mut self) -> JsValue {
         self.with_core_mut(|core| {
             let info = core.prepare_context_menu();
-            JsValue::from_serde(&info).unwrap_or(JsValue::UNDEFINED)
+            serde_wasm_bindgen::to_value(&info).unwrap_or(JsValue::UNDEFINED)
         })
         .unwrap_or(JsValue::UNDEFINED)
     }
@@ -1032,7 +1032,7 @@ impl Ruffle {
                 is_action_script_3: swf_header.is_action_script_3(),
             };
 
-            if let Ok(value) = JsValue::from_serde(&metadata) {
+            if let Ok(value) = serde_wasm_bindgen::to_value(&metadata) {
                 instance.js_player.set_metadata(value);
             }
         });