diff --git a/projects/shell-chrome/src/app/backend.ts b/projects/shell-chrome/src/app/backend.ts
index d682d83118d..014d0ed52ab 100644
--- a/projects/shell-chrome/src/app/backend.ts
+++ b/projects/shell-chrome/src/app/backend.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import { initializeMessageBus } from 'ng-devtools-backend';
 import { SamePageMessageBus } from './same-page-message-bus';
 import { initializeExtendedWindowOperations } from './chrome-window-extensions';
 import { unHighlight } from '../../../ng-devtools-backend/src/lib/highlighter';
-import { runOutsideAngular } from '../../../ng-devtools-backend/src/lib/utils';
 
 const messageBus = new SamePageMessageBus('angular-devtools-backend', 'angular-devtools-content-script');
 
@@ -27,15 +26,13 @@ messageBus.on('handshake', () => {
 
   // handles case when mouse leaves chrome extension too quickly. unHighlight() is not a very expensive function
   // and has an if check so it's DOM api call is not called more than necessary
-  runOutsideAngular(() => {
-    document.addEventListener(
-      'mousemove',
-      () => {
-        if (!inspectorRunning) {
-          unHighlight();
-        }
-      },
-      false
-    );
-  });
+  document.addEventListener(
+    'mousemove',
+    () => {
+      if (!inspectorRunning) {
+        unHighlight();
+      }
+    },
+    false
+  );
 });