diff --git a/.changeset/kind-stingrays-sniff.md b/.changeset/kind-stingrays-sniff.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b33899f98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/kind-stingrays-sniff.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@crxjs/vite-plugin": patch
+---
+
+removing unnecessary v8 dependency
diff --git a/packages/vite-plugin/src/node/helpers.ts b/packages/vite-plugin/src/node/helpers.ts
index 9a953e294..1d086c6a5 100644
--- a/packages/vite-plugin/src/node/helpers.ts
+++ b/packages/vite-plugin/src/node/helpers.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import { simple } from 'acorn-walk'
 import { createHash as _hash } from 'crypto'
 import debug from 'debug'
 import { AcornNode, OutputBundle, PluginContext } from 'rollup'
-import v8 from 'v8'
 import type {
   ManifestV3,
   WebAccessibleResourceById,
@@ -17,10 +16,6 @@ import type {
 
 export const _debug = (id: string) => debug('crx').extend(id)
 
-export const structuredClone = <T>(obj: T): T => {
-  return v8.deserialize(v8.serialize(obj))
-}
-
 export const hash = (data: string, length = 5): string =>
   _hash('sha1')
     .update(data)
diff --git a/packages/vite-plugin/src/node/plugin-manifest.ts b/packages/vite-plugin/src/node/plugin-manifest.ts
index d6c838bf0..6313cc1bb 100644
--- a/packages/vite-plugin/src/node/plugin-manifest.ts
+++ b/packages/vite-plugin/src/node/plugin-manifest.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import {
   decodeManifest,
   encodeManifest,
   isString,
-  structuredClone,
 } from './helpers'
 import { ManifestV3 } from './manifest'
 import { basename, isAbsolute, join, relative } from './path'