diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 0dec63c8b..20dd123fe 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4359,7 +4359,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "ruffle_render",
  "ruffle_render_wgpu",
  "ruffle_video_software",
- "slotmap",
  "sys-locale",
  "tokio",
  "toml_edit 0.22.9",
@@ -4381,7 +4380,9 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "ruffle_frontend_utils"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
+ "async-channel 2.2.0",
  "ruffle_core",
+ "slotmap",
  "tempfile",
  "thiserror",
  "toml_edit 0.22.9",
diff --git a/desktop/Cargo.toml b/desktop/Cargo.toml
index bdfe9e481..8631b998b 100644
--- a/desktop/Cargo.toml
+++ b/desktop/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ ruffle_frontend_utils = { path = "../frontend-utils" }
 tracing = { workspace = true }
 tracing-subscriber = { workspace = true }
 tracing-appender = "0.2.3"
-slotmap = { workspace = true }
 winit = "0.29.15"
 webbrowser = "0.8.14"
 url = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/desktop/src/backends/navigator.rs b/desktop/src/backends/navigator.rs
index c05d8036e..88fede948 100644
--- a/desktop/src/backends/navigator.rs
+++ b/desktop/src/backends/navigator.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 //! Navigator backend for web
 
-use crate::executor::FutureSpawner;
 use crate::player::PlayingContent;
 use async_channel::{Receiver, Sender, TryRecvError};
 use async_io::Timer;
@@ -21,6 +20,7 @@ use ruffle_core::backend::navigator::{
 use ruffle_core::indexmap::IndexMap;
 use ruffle_core::loader::Error;
 use ruffle_core::socket::{ConnectionState, SocketAction, SocketHandle};
+use ruffle_frontend_utils::backends::executor::FutureSpawner;
 use std::collections::HashSet;
 use std::io;
 use std::io::ErrorKind;
diff --git a/desktop/src/main.rs b/desktop/src/main.rs
index c16ae0b72..01a82791b 100644
--- a/desktop/src/main.rs
+++ b/desktop/src/main.rs
@@ -10,12 +10,10 @@ mod app;
 mod backends;
 mod cli;
 mod custom_event;
-mod executor;
 mod gui;
 mod log;
 mod player;
 mod preferences;
-mod task;
 mod time_demo;
 mod util;
 
diff --git a/desktop/src/player.rs b/desktop/src/player.rs
index ded2271f6..1da237102 100644
--- a/desktop/src/player.rs
+++ b/desktop/src/player.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ use crate::backends::{
     ExternalNavigatorBackend,
 };
 use crate::custom_event::RuffleEvent;
-use crate::executor::{PollRequester, WinitAsyncExecutor};
 use crate::gui::MovieView;
 use crate::preferences::GlobalPreferences;
 use crate::{CALLSTACK, RENDER_INFO, SWF_INFO};
@@ -16,6 +15,7 @@ use ruffle_core::{
     DefaultFont, LoadBehavior, Player, PlayerBuilder, PlayerEvent, PlayerRuntime, StageAlign,
     StageScaleMode,
 };
+use ruffle_frontend_utils::backends::executor::{PollRequester, WinitAsyncExecutor};
 use ruffle_frontend_utils::bundle::source::BundleSourceError;
 use ruffle_frontend_utils::bundle::{Bundle, BundleError};
 use ruffle_render::backend::RenderBackend;
diff --git a/frontend-utils/Cargo.toml b/frontend-utils/Cargo.toml
index 4941547ff..bfa2da0bc 100644
--- a/frontend-utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/frontend-utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ thiserror = { workspace = true }
 zip = "0.6.6"
 urlencoding = "2.1.3"
 ruffle_core = { path = "../core", default-features = false }
+async-channel = { workspace = true }
+slotmap = { workspace = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tempfile = "3"
diff --git a/frontend-utils/src/backends.rs b/frontend-utils/src/backends.rs
index 30f61eb69..f3c21109f 100644
--- a/frontend-utils/src/backends.rs
+++ b/frontend-utils/src/backends.rs
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+pub mod executor;
 pub mod storage;
diff --git a/desktop/src/executor.rs b/frontend-utils/src/backends/executor.rs
similarity index 99%
rename from desktop/src/executor.rs
rename to frontend-utils/src/backends/executor.rs
index 19e06343d..e1ee6471a 100644
--- a/desktop/src/executor.rs
+++ b/frontend-utils/src/backends/executor.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-//! Async executor
+mod task;
 
-use crate::task::Task;
+pub use crate::backends::executor::task::Task;
 use async_channel::{unbounded, Receiver, Sender};
 use ruffle_core::backend::navigator::OwnedFuture;
 use ruffle_core::loader::Error;
diff --git a/desktop/src/task.rs b/frontend-utils/src/backends/executor/task.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from desktop/src/task.rs
rename to frontend-utils/src/backends/executor/task.rs