diff --git a/lib/utils.js b/lib/utils.js
index f1e736f..3432b1a 100644
--- a/lib/utils.js
+++ b/lib/utils.js
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ const entities = require('entities');
 const xml2js = require('xml2js');
 
 utils.stripHtml = function(str) {
-  str = str.replace(/([^\n])<\/?(h|br|p|ul|ol|li|blockquote|section|table|tr|div)(?:.|\n)*?>([^\n])/gm, '$1\n$3')
-  str = str.replace(/<(?:.|\n)*?>/gm, '');
+  str = str.replace(/([^\n])<\/?(h|br|p|ul|ol|li|blockquote|section|table|tr|div)[^<>]*>([^\n])/gm, '$1\n$3')
+  str = str.replace(/<[^<>]*>/gm, '');
   return str;
 }
 
diff --git a/test/html.js b/test/html.js
index b93ffb9..84948b5 100644
--- a/test/html.js
+++ b/test/html.js
@@ -41,5 +41,11 @@ describe('Utils', function() {
       Expect('|' + utils.getSnippet(tc.input) + '|').to.equal('|' + tc.output + '|', tc.input);
     });
   })
+
+  it('should handle repeated unterminated HTML tags efficiently', function() {
+    this.timeout(2000);
+    var input = 'a<br'.repeat(40000);
+    Expect(utils.getSnippet(input)).to.equal(input);
+  })
 });