From 247fc05d1cb79e2096187c20d6e83fc86040240e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Caine <cmc@cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:39:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Simplify open()

---
 src/excmds.ts | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/excmds.ts b/src/excmds.ts
index fd599e73..1191066e 100644
--- a/src/excmds.ts
+++ b/src/excmds.ts
@@ -863,11 +863,10 @@ export async function open(...urlarr: string[]) {
     let url = urlarr.join(" ")
 
     // Setting window.location to about:blank results in a page we can't access, tabs.update works.
-    if (["about:blank"].includes(url)) {
-        url = url || undefined
+    if (url === "about:blank") {
         browserBg.tabs.update(await activeTabId(), { url })
-        // Open URLs that firefox won't let us by running `firefox <URL>` on the command line
     } else if (!ABOUT_WHITELIST.includes(url) && url.match(/^(about|file):.*/)) {
+        // Open URLs that firefox won't let us by running `firefox <URL>` on the command line
         Messaging.message("commandline_background", "recvExStr", ["nativeopen " + url])
     } else if (url !== "") {
         window.location.href = forceURI(url)