diff -Nur a/mcomix/about_dialog.py b/mcomix/about_dialog.py
--- a/mcomix/about_dialog.py	2014-07-20 14:41:41.000000000 -0300
+++ b/mcomix/about_dialog.py	2015-02-03 20:06:18.707598152 -0200
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
         comment = \
             _('%s is an image viewer specifically designed to handle comic books.') % \
             constants.APPNAME + u' ' + \
-            _('It reads ZIP, RAR and tar archives, as well as plain image files.')
+            _('It reads ZIP and tar archives, as well as plain image files.')
         self.set_comments(comment)
 
         license = \
diff -Nur a/mcomix/archive_tools.py b/mcomix/archive_tools.py
--- a/mcomix/archive_tools.py	2014-07-28 11:32:51.000000000 -0300
+++ b/mcomix/archive_tools.py	2015-02-03 20:10:46.137856205 -0200
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 from mcomix import log
 from mcomix.archive import zip
 from mcomix.archive import zip_external
-from mcomix.archive import rar
 from mcomix.archive import tar
 from mcomix.archive import sevenzip
 from mcomix.archive import lha
@@ -20,9 +19,6 @@
 def szip_available():
     return sevenzip.SevenZipArchive.is_available()
 
-def rar_available():
-    return rar.RarArchive.is_available() or szip_available()
-
 def lha_available():
     return lha.LhaArchive.is_available() or szip_available()
 
@@ -35,9 +31,6 @@
     if szip_available():
         formats.extend(constants.SZIP_FORMATS[1])
 
-    if rar_available():
-        formats.extend(constants.RAR_FORMATS[1])
-
     if lha_available():
         formats.extend(constants.LHA_FORMATS[1])
 
@@ -81,10 +74,7 @@
                 else:
                     return constants.TAR
 
-            if magic[0:4] == 'Rar!':
-                return constants.RAR
-
-            elif magic[0:4] == '7z\xBC\xAF':
+            if magic[0:4] == '7z\xBC\xAF':
                 return constants.SEVENZIP
 
             # Headers for TAR-XZ and TAR-LZMA that aren't supported by tarfile
@@ -143,11 +133,6 @@
         return sevenzip.SevenZipArchive(path)
     elif type in (constants.TAR, constants.GZIP, constants.BZIP2):
         return tar.TarArchive(path)
-    elif type == constants.RAR and rar.RarArchive.is_available():
-        return rar.RarArchive(path)
-    elif type == constants.RAR and sevenzip.SevenZipArchive.is_available():
-        log.info('Using Sevenzip for RAR archives.')
-        return sevenzip.SevenZipArchive(path)
     elif type == constants.SEVENZIP and sevenzip.SevenZipArchive.is_available():
         return sevenzip.SevenZipArchive(path)
     elif type == constants.LHA and lha.LhaArchive.is_available():
diff -Nur a/mcomix/constants.py b/mcomix/constants.py
--- a/mcomix/constants.py	2015-01-31 06:06:26.000000000 -0200
+++ b/mcomix/constants.py	2015-02-03 20:11:54.983850230 -0200
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 LAST_INDEX = -1
 UNION_INDEX = -2
 
-ZIP, RAR, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, PDF, SEVENZIP, LHA, ZIP_EXTERNAL = range(9)
+ZIP, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, PDF, SEVENZIP, LHA, ZIP_EXTERNAL = range(8)
 NORMAL_CURSOR, GRAB_CURSOR, WAIT_CURSOR, NO_CURSOR = range(4)
 LIBRARY_DRAG_EXTERNAL_ID, LIBRARY_DRAG_BOOK_ID, LIBRARY_DRAG_COLLECTION_ID = range(3)
 AUTOROTATE_NEVER, AUTOROTATE_WIDTH_90, AUTOROTATE_WIDTH_270, \
@@ -70,9 +70,6 @@
 ZIP_FORMATS = (
         ('application/x-zip', 'application/zip', 'application/x-zip-compressed', 'application/x-cbz'),
         ('*.zip', '*.cbz'))
-RAR_FORMATS = (
-        ('application/x-rar', 'application/x-cbr'),
-        ('*.rar', '*.cbr'))
 TAR_FORMATS = (
         ('application/x-tar', 'application/x-gzip', 'application/x-bzip2', 'application/x-cbt'),
         ('*.tar', '*.gz', '*.bz2', '*.bzip2', '*.cbt'))
diff -Nur a/mcomix/file_chooser_base_dialog.py b/mcomix/file_chooser_base_dialog.py
--- a/mcomix/file_chooser_base_dialog.py	2014-01-18 06:01:42.000000000 -0200
+++ b/mcomix/file_chooser_base_dialog.py	2015-02-03 20:13:45.971467307 -0200
@@ -88,9 +88,6 @@
         # extractor availability.
         mimetypes = constants.ZIP_FORMATS[0] + constants.TAR_FORMATS[0]
         patterns = constants.ZIP_FORMATS[1] + constants.TAR_FORMATS[1]
-        if archive_tools.rar_available():
-            mimetypes += constants.RAR_FORMATS[0]
-            patterns += constants.RAR_FORMATS[1]
         if archive_tools.szip_available():
             mimetypes += constants.SZIP_FORMATS[0]
             patterns += constants.SZIP_FORMATS[1]
@@ -107,10 +104,6 @@
         self.add_filter(_('Tar archives'),
             *constants.TAR_FORMATS)
 
-        if archive_tools.rar_available():
-            self.add_filter(_('RAR archives'),
-                *constants.RAR_FORMATS)
-
         if archive_tools.szip_available():
             self.add_filter(_('7z archives'),
                 *constants.SZIP_FORMATS)
diff -Nur a/mcomix/messages/mcomix.pot b/mcomix/messages/mcomix.pot
--- a/mcomix/messages/mcomix.pot	2015-01-31 05:55:44.000000000 -0200
+++ b/mcomix/messages/mcomix.pot	2015-02-03 20:32:26.271598749 -0200
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 msgstr ""
 
 #: mcomix/about_dialog.py:30
-msgid "It reads ZIP, RAR and tar archives, as well as plain image files."
+msgid "It reads ZIP and tar archives, as well as plain image files."
 msgstr ""
 
 #: mcomix/about_dialog.py:34
@@ -242,10 +242,6 @@
 msgid "Tar archives"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: mcomix/file_chooser_base_dialog.py:111
-msgid "RAR archives"
-msgstr ""
-
 #: mcomix/file_chooser_base_dialog.py:115
 msgid "7z archives"
 msgstr ""
@@ -1568,10 +1564,6 @@
 msgid "Bzip2 compressed tar archive"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: mcomix/strings.py:13
-msgid "RAR archive"
-msgstr ""
-
 #: mcomix/strings.py:14
 msgid "7z archive"
 msgstr ""
diff -Nur a/mcomix/process.py b/mcomix/process.py
--- a/mcomix/process.py	2014-07-25 13:37:00.000000000 -0300
+++ b/mcomix/process.py	2015-02-03 20:16:10.747046736 -0200
@@ -20,10 +20,7 @@
 class Process:
 
     """The subprocess and popen2 modules in Python are broken (see issue
-    #1336). The problem (i.e. complete crash) they can cause happen fairly
-    often (once is too often) in MComix when calling "rar" or "unrar" to
-    extract specific files from archives. We roll our own very simple
-    process spawning module here instead.
+    #1336). We roll our own very simple process spawning module here instead.
     """
     # TODO: I can no longer reproduce the issue. Check if this version of
     # process.py still solves it.
diff -Nur a/mcomix/recent.py b/mcomix/recent.py
--- a/mcomix/recent.py	2014-06-09 03:08:26.000000000 -0300
+++ b/mcomix/recent.py	2015-02-03 20:17:14.779514387 -0200
@@ -31,8 +31,7 @@
         rfilter.add_pixbuf_formats()
 
         mimetypes, patterns = itertools.izip(constants.ZIP_FORMATS,
-                constants.RAR_FORMATS, constants.TAR_FORMATS,
-                constants.SZIP_FORMATS)
+                constants.TAR_FORMATS, constants.SZIP_FORMATS)
 
         for mimetype in itertools.chain.from_iterable(mimetypes):
             rfilter.add_mime_type(mimetype)
diff -Nur a/mcomix/strings.py b/mcomix/strings.py
--- a/mcomix/strings.py	2014-01-18 06:01:42.000000000 -0200
+++ b/mcomix/strings.py	2015-02-03 20:18:10.421674128 -0200
@@ -3,14 +3,13 @@
     This file should only be imported after gettext has been correctly initialized
     and installed in the global namespace. """
 
-from mcomix.constants import ZIP, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, RAR, SEVENZIP, LHA
+from mcomix.constants import ZIP, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, SEVENZIP, LHA
 
 ARCHIVE_DESCRIPTIONS = {
                         ZIP:   _('ZIP archive'),
                         TAR:   _('Tar archive'),
                         GZIP:  _('Gzip compressed tar archive'),
                         BZIP2: _('Bzip2 compressed tar archive'),
-                        RAR:   _('RAR archive'),
                         SEVENZIP: _('7z archive'),
                         LHA: _('LHA archive')
                        }
diff -Nur a/mcomix.egg-info/SOURCES.txt b/mcomix.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
--- a/mcomix.egg-info/SOURCES.txt	2015-01-31 06:08:19.000000000 -0200
+++ b/mcomix.egg-info/SOURCES.txt	2015-02-03 20:19:25.537920559 -0200
@@ -84,8 +84,6 @@
 mcomix/archive/archive_recursive.py
 mcomix/archive/lha.py
 mcomix/archive/pdf.py
-mcomix/archive/rar.py
-mcomix/archive/rarfile.py
 mcomix/archive/sevenzip.py
 mcomix/archive/tar.py
 mcomix/archive/zip.py
@@ -184,18 +182,13 @@
 mime/mcomix.desktop
 mime/mcomix.thumbnailer
 mime/mcomix.xml
-mime/icons/16x16/application-x-cbr.png
 mime/icons/16x16/application-x-cbt.png
 mime/icons/16x16/application-x-cbz.png
-mime/icons/22x22/application-x-cbr.png
 mime/icons/22x22/application-x-cbt.png
 mime/icons/22x22/application-x-cbz.png
-mime/icons/24x24/application-x-cbr.png
 mime/icons/24x24/application-x-cbt.png
 mime/icons/24x24/application-x-cbz.png
-mime/icons/32x32/application-x-cbr.png
 mime/icons/32x32/application-x-cbt.png
 mime/icons/32x32/application-x-cbz.png
-mime/icons/48x48/application-x-cbr.png
 mime/icons/48x48/application-x-cbt.png
-mime/icons/48x48/application-x-cbz.png
\ No newline at end of file
+mime/icons/48x48/application-x-cbz.png
diff -Nur a/mime/comicbook.schemas b/mime/comicbook.schemas
--- a/mime/comicbook.schemas	2013-01-08 14:26:46.000000000 -0200
+++ b/mime/comicbook.schemas	2015-02-03 20:20:10.809688373 -0200
@@ -1,28 +1,6 @@
 <gconfschemafile>
     <schemalist>
         <schema>
-            <key>/schemas/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application@x-cbr/enable</key>
-            <applyto>/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application@x-cbr/enable</applyto>
-            <owner>comicthumb</owner>
-            <type>bool</type>
-            <default>true</default>
-            <locale name="C">
-                <short></short>
-                <long></long>
-            </locale>
-        </schema>
-        <schema>
-            <key>/schemas/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application@x-cbr/command</key>
-            <applyto>/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application@x-cbr/command</applyto>
-            <owner>comicthumb</owner>
-            <type>string</type>
-            <default>comicthumb %i %o %s</default>
-            <locale name="C">
-                <short></short>
-                <long></long>
-            </locale>
-        </schema>
-        <schema>
             <key>/schemas/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application@x-cbz/enable</key>
             <applyto>/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application@x-cbz/enable</applyto>
             <owner>comicthumb</owner>
diff -Nur a/mime/comicthumb b/mime/comicthumb
--- a/mime/comicthumb	2013-01-13 14:35:00.000000000 -0200
+++ b/mime/comicthumb	2015-02-03 20:22:30.481808283 -0200
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 comicthumb was originally written by Christoph Wolk, this version was
 re-written from scratch for Comix 4 by Pontus Ekberg. 
 
-Supported formats: ZIP, RAR and tar (.cbz, .cbr, .cbt)
+Supported formats: ZIP and tar (.cbz, .cbt)
 
 Usage: comicthumb INFILE OUTFILE [SIZE]
 """
@@ -28,16 +28,13 @@
     print __doc__
     sys.exit(1)
 
-ZIP, RAR, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2 = range(5)
+ZIP, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2 = range(5)
 
 
 class Process:
     
     """The subprocess and popen2 modules in Python are broken (see issue
-    #1336). The problem (i.e. complete crash) they can cause happen fairly
-    often (once is too often) in Comix when calling "rar" or "unrar" to
-    extract specific files from archives. We roll our own very simple
-    process spawning module here instead.
+    #1336). We roll our own very simple process spawning module here instead.
     """
     # TODO: I can no longer reproduce the issue. Check if this version of
     # process.py still solves it.
@@ -94,19 +91,6 @@
         elif self._type in [TAR, GZIP, BZIP2]:
             self._tfile = tarfile.open(src, 'r')
             self._files = self._tfile.getnames()
-        elif self._type == RAR:
-            self._rar = None
-            for command in ('unrar', 'rar'):
-                if Process([command]).spawn() is not None:
-                    self._rar = command
-            if self._rar == None:
-                print '! Could not find the "rar" or "unrar" executable.'
-                sys.exit(1)
-            proc = Process([self._rar, 'vb', src])
-            fobj = proc.spawn()
-            self._files = fobj.readlines()
-            proc.wait()
-            self._files = [name.rstrip('\n') for name in self._files]
     
     def get_files(self):
         """Return a list of the files in the archive."""
@@ -121,11 +105,6 @@
             return cStringIO.StringIO(self._zfile.read(chosen))
         elif self._type in [TAR, GZIP, BZIP2]:
             return cStringIO.StringIO(self._tfile.extractfile(chosen).read())
-        elif self._type == RAR:
-            proc = Process([self._rar, 'p', '-inul', '-p-', '--',
-                self._src, chosen])
-            fobj = proc.spawn()
-            return cStringIO.StringIO(fobj.read())
 
 
 def archive_mime_type(path):
@@ -145,8 +124,6 @@
                 if magic.startswith('\037\213'):
                     return GZIP
                 return TAR
-            if magic == 'Rar!':
-                return RAR
     except Exception:
         print '! Error while reading', path
     return None
diff -Nur a/mime/mcomix.desktop b/mime/mcomix.desktop
--- a/mime/mcomix.desktop	2013-01-08 14:26:46.000000000 -0200
+++ b/mime/mcomix.desktop	2015-02-03 20:24:12.805803236 -0200
@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@
 Type=Application
 StartupNotify=true
 Categories=Graphics;Viewer;
-MimeType=application/x-cbz;application/x-cbr;application/x-cbt;image/jpeg;image/png;image/gif;image/tiff;image/bmp;image/x-icon;image/x-xpixmap;image/x-xbitmap;application/x-zip;application/zip;application/x-rar;application/x-tar;application/x-gzip;application/x-bzip2;image/svg+xml;image/svg;image/svg-xml;image/vnd.adobe.svg+xml;text/xml-svg;image/x-portable-anymap;image/x-portable-bitmap;image/x-portable-graymap;image/x-portable-pixmap;image/x-pcx;image/x-cmu-raster;image/x-sun-raster;image/x-tga;application/x-7z-compressed;application/x-cb7;application/x-lzh;application/x-lha;application/x-lzh-compressed;
+MimeType=application/x-cbz;application/x-cbt;image/jpeg;image/png;image/gif;image/tiff;image/bmp;image/x-icon;image/x-xpixmap;image/x-xbitmap;application/x-zip;application/zip;application/x-tar;application/x-gzip;application/x-bzip2;image/svg+xml;image/svg;image/svg-xml;image/vnd.adobe.svg+xml;text/xml-svg;image/x-portable-anymap;image/x-portable-bitmap;image/x-portable-graymap;image/x-portable-pixmap;image/x-pcx;image/x-cmu-raster;image/x-sun-raster;image/x-tga;application/x-7z-compressed;application/x-cb7;application/x-lzh;application/x-lha;application/x-lzh-compressed;
diff -Nur a/mime/mcomix.thumbnailer b/mime/mcomix.thumbnailer
--- a/mime/mcomix.thumbnailer	2014-01-18 06:01:42.000000000 -0200
+++ b/mime/mcomix.thumbnailer	2015-02-03 20:27:12.596127651 -0200
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 [Thumbnailer Entry]
 TryExec=comicthumb
 Exec=comicthumb %u %o %s
-MimeType=application/x-cbr;application/x-cbz;application/x-cbt;
+MimeType=application/x-cbz;application/x-cbt;
diff -Nur a/mime/mcomix.xml b/mime/mcomix.xml
--- a/mime/mcomix.xml	2013-01-08 14:26:46.000000000 -0200
+++ b/mime/mcomix.xml	2015-02-03 20:27:36.940405337 -0200
@@ -5,11 +5,6 @@
         <comment xml:lang="en">Comic Book Archive (Zip compressed)</comment>
         <glob pattern="*.cbz"/>
     </mime-type>
-    <mime-type type="application/x-cbr">
-        <sub-class-of type="application/x-rar"/>
-        <comment xml:lang="en">Comic Book Archive (RAR compressed)</comment>
-        <glob pattern="*.cbr"/> 
-    </mime-type>
     <mime-type type="application/x-cbt">
         <sub-class-of type="application/x-compressed-tar"/>
         <sub-class-of type="application/x-bzip-compressed-tar"/>
diff -Nur a/setup.py b/setup.py
--- a/setup.py	2014-06-09 03:08:26.000000000 -0300
+++ b/setup.py	2015-02-03 20:28:30.005795579 -0200
@@ -79,23 +79,18 @@
         ('share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps', ['mcomix/images/48x48/mcomix.png']),
         ('share/icons/hicolor/16x16/mimetypes',
             ['mime/icons/16x16/application-x-cbz.png',
-             'mime/icons/16x16/application-x-cbr.png',
              'mime/icons/16x16/application-x-cbt.png']),
         ('share/icons/hicolor/22x22/mimetypes',
             ['mime/icons/22x22/application-x-cbz.png',
-             'mime/icons/22x22/application-x-cbr.png',
              'mime/icons/22x22/application-x-cbt.png']),
         ('share/icons/hicolor/24x24/mimetypes',
             ['mime/icons/24x24/application-x-cbz.png',
-             'mime/icons/24x24/application-x-cbr.png',
              'mime/icons/24x24/application-x-cbt.png']),
         ('share/icons/hicolor/32x32/mimetypes',
             ['mime/icons/32x32/application-x-cbz.png',
-             'mime/icons/32x32/application-x-cbr.png',
              'mime/icons/32x32/application-x-cbt.png']),
         ('share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes',
             ['mime/icons/48x48/application-x-cbz.png',
-             'mime/icons/48x48/application-x-cbr.png',
              'mime/icons/48x48/application-x-cbt.png'])],
 
     # Package metadata