diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cbdb9fbec..ff5517d8b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ CHANGELOG
 
 ## HEAD (Unreleased)
 * @typcn bumped grunt-sass to ^1.0.0 to support node 4.x ([view](https://github.com/videojs/video.js/pull/2645))
+* @gkatsev removed unhelpful isCrossOrigin test ([view](https://github.com/videojs/video.js/pull/2715))
 
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diff --git a/src/js/utils/url.js b/src/js/utils/url.js
index 653f58157..6532c28fe 100644
--- a/src/js/utils/url.js
+++ b/src/js/utils/url.js
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ export const getFileExtension = function(path) {
  * @method isCrossOrigin
  */
 export const isCrossOrigin = function(url) {
-  let urlInfo = parseUrl(url);
   let winLoc = window.location;
+  let urlInfo = parseUrl(url);
 
   // IE8 protocol relative urls will return ':' for protocol
   let srcProtocol = urlInfo.protocol === ':' ? winLoc.protocol : urlInfo.protocol;
diff --git a/test/unit/utils/url.test.js b/test/unit/utils/url.test.js
index 79d9ab7a7..4e2ed9aba 100644
--- a/test/unit/utils/url.test.js
+++ b/test/unit/utils/url.test.js
@@ -93,7 +93,6 @@ test('isCrossOrigin can identify cross origin urls', function() {
   win.location.protocol = 'https:';
   win.location.host = 'google.com';
   ok(Url.isCrossOrigin('http://google.com/example.vtt'), 'http://google.com from https://google.com is cross origin');
-  ok(Url.isCrossOrigin('//google.com/example.vtt'), '//google.com from https://google.com is cross origin');
   ok(Url.isCrossOrigin('http://example.com/example.vtt'), 'http://example.com from https://google.com is cross origin');
   ok(Url.isCrossOrigin('https://example.com/example.vtt'), 'https://example.com from https://google.com is cross origin');
   ok(Url.isCrossOrigin('//example.com/example.vtt'), '//example.com from https://google.com is cross origin');