diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc
index 4b072684c..2ee5a9402 100644
--- a/README.asciidoc
+++ b/README.asciidoc
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ Contributors, sorted by the number of commits in descending order:
 * sbinix
 * Tobias Patzl
 * Johannes Altmanninger
+* Thorsten Wißmann
 * Samir Benmendil
 * Regina Hug
 * Mathias Fussenegger
@@ -167,7 +168,6 @@ Contributors, sorted by the number of commits in descending order:
 * zwarag
 * error800
 * Tim Harder
-* Thorsten Wißmann
 * Thiago Barroso Perrotta
 * Matthias Lisin
 * Helen Sherwood-Taylor
diff --git a/doc/help/commands.asciidoc b/doc/help/commands.asciidoc
index a898b9698..012522909 100644
--- a/doc/help/commands.asciidoc
+++ b/doc/help/commands.asciidoc
@@ -630,6 +630,8 @@ Syntax: +:tab-focus ['index']+
 
 Select the tab given as argument/[count].
 
+If neither count nor index are given, it behaves like tab-next.
+
 ==== positional arguments
 * +'index'+: The tab index to focus, starting with 1. The special value `last` focuses the last focused tab.
 
diff --git a/qutebrowser/browser/commands.py b/qutebrowser/browser/commands.py
index 5a07dbb56..1fc2a5bf7 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/browser/commands.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/browser/commands.py
@@ -878,6 +878,8 @@ class CommandDispatcher:
     def tab_focus(self, index: {'type': (int, 'last')}=None, count=None):
         """Select the tab given as argument/[count].
 
+        If neither count nor index are given, it behaves like tab-next.
+
         Args:
             index: The tab index to focus, starting with 1. The special value
                    `last` focuses the last focused tab.
@@ -886,6 +888,9 @@ class CommandDispatcher:
         if index == 'last':
             self._tab_focus_last()
             return
+        if index is None and count is None:
+            self.tab_next()
+            return
         try:
             idx = cmdutils.arg_or_count(index, count, default=1,
                                         countzero=self._count())
diff --git a/qutebrowser/config/configdata.py b/qutebrowser/config/configdata.py
index 7a1f4f236..5e40bf7e1 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/config/configdata.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/config/configdata.py
@@ -1236,7 +1236,7 @@ KEY_DATA = collections.OrderedDict([
         ('tab-move', ['gm']),
         ('tab-move -', ['gl']),
         ('tab-move +', ['gr']),
-        ('tab-next', ['J', 'gt']),
+        ('tab-focus', ['J', 'gt']),
         ('tab-prev', ['K', 'gT']),
         ('tab-clone', ['gC']),
         ('reload', ['r']),