eww-current-url is set to 'author when visiting a URL of a web page with no title. This causes reload to fail. To reproduce: emacs -q M-x eww http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/news/NEWS.24.3 M-x eww-reload url-retrieve-internal: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, author M-: eww-current-url author Emacs version: GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i386-apple-darwin12.5.0, NS apple-appkit-1187.40) of 2013-10-14 on ****