diff --git a/src/ng/browser.js b/src/ng/browser.js
index 3925348317ce..9682cd28a0c8 100644
--- a/src/ng/browser.js
+++ b/src/ng/browser.js
@@ -276,14 +276,15 @@ function Browser(window, document, $log, $sniffer) {
       } else {
         if (isString(value)) {
           cookieLength = (rawDocument.cookie = escape(name) + '=' + escape(value) + ';path=' + cookiePath).length + 1;
+
+          // per http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2109.txt browser must allow at minimum:
+          // - 300 cookies
+          // - 20 cookies per unique domain
+          // - 4096 bytes per cookie
           if (cookieLength > 4096) {
             $log.warn("Cookie '"+ name +"' possibly not set or overflowed because it was too large ("+
               cookieLength + " > 4096 bytes)!");
           }
-          if (lastCookies.length > 20) {
-            $log.warn("Cookie '"+ name +"' possibly not set or overflowed because too many cookies " +
-              "were already set (" + lastCookies.length + " > 20 )");
-          }
         }
       }
     } else {
diff --git a/test/ng/browserSpecs.js b/test/ng/browserSpecs.js
index 3f28c6059c5c..53ca26429493 100644
--- a/test/ng/browserSpecs.js
+++ b/test/ng/browserSpecs.js
@@ -277,33 +277,6 @@ describe('browser', function() {
 
         expect(browser.cookies().x).toEqual('shortVal');
       });
-
-      it('should log warnings when 20 cookies per domain storage limit is reached', function() {
-        var i, str, cookieStr;
-
-        for (i=0; i<20; i++) {
-          str = '' + i;
-          browser.cookies(str, str);
-        }
-
-        i=0;
-        for (str in browser.cookies()) {
-          i++;
-        }
-        expect(i).toEqual(20);
-        expect(logs.warn).toEqual([]);
-        cookieStr = document.cookie;
-
-        browser.cookies('one', 'more');
-        expect(logs.warn).toEqual([]);
-
-        //if browser dropped a cookie (very likely), make sure that the cache is not out of sync
-        if (document.cookie === cookieStr) {
-          expect(size(browser.cookies())).toEqual(20);
-        } else {
-          expect(size(browser.cookies())).toEqual(21);
-        }
-      });
     });