diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc
index a253ea6fb..28614d3ae 100644
--- a/README.asciidoc
+++ b/README.asciidoc
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ Contributors, sorted by the number of commits in descending order:
 * Jussi Timperi
 * Fritz Reichwald
 * Brian Jackson
+* thuck
 * sbinix
 * neeasade
 * jnphilipp
diff --git a/qutebrowser/mainwindow/tabbedbrowser.py b/qutebrowser/mainwindow/tabbedbrowser.py
index 8a1a8504f..f653500a0 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/mainwindow/tabbedbrowser.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/mainwindow/tabbedbrowser.py
@@ -522,7 +522,8 @@ class TabbedBrowser(tabwidget.TabWidget):
 
         # If needed, re-open the tab as a workaround for QTBUG-54419.
         # See https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-54419
-        if tab.needs_qtbug54419_workaround:
+        if (tab.backend == usertypes.Backend.QtWebEngine and
+                tab.needs_qtbug54419_workaround):
             log.misc.debug("Doing QTBUG-54419 workaround for {}, "
                            "url {}".format(tab, url))
             self.setUpdatesEnabled(False)