From e22ef776f9609af9dcff966b8ca2f695cf910ca3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Tournoij <martin@arp242.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 19:02:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix crash when executing "qutebrowser :set".

Fixes #720.
See #721.
---
 qutebrowser/mainwindow/tabbedbrowser.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/qutebrowser/mainwindow/tabbedbrowser.py b/qutebrowser/mainwindow/tabbedbrowser.py
index ba5a5c725..d54b22d0c 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/mainwindow/tabbedbrowser.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/mainwindow/tabbedbrowser.py
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ class TabbedBrowser(tabwidget.TabWidget):
             newtab: True to open URL in a new tab, False otherwise.
         """
         qtutils.ensure_valid(url)
-        if newtab:
+        if newtab or self.currentWidget() is None:
             self.tabopen(url, background=False)
         else:
             self.currentWidget().openurl(url)