This is a bug of surf, it usually happens when browsing some js heavy sites, I 
have something
like the following in my custom version of surf, and it solved the problem.

commit 9280cffc390e79416487d23f6cbca96fb80fc0da
Author: nzl <uru...@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 18 06:44:30 2019 +0000

    signal uri change

diff --git a/surf.c b/surf.c
index 5c8cb4e..fd7223c 100644
--- a/surf.c
+++ b/surf.c
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ static gboolean loadfailedtls(WebKitWebView *v, gchar *uri,
 static void loadchanged(WebKitWebView *v, WebKitLoadEvent e, Client *c);
 static void progresschanged(WebKitWebView *v, GParamSpec *ps, Client *c);
 static void titlechanged(WebKitWebView *view, GParamSpec *ps, Client *c);
+static void urichanged(WebKitWebView *view, GParamSpec *ps, Client *c);
 static void mousetargetchanged(WebKitWebView *v, WebKitHitTestResult *h,
                                guint modifiers, Client *c);
 static gboolean permissionrequested(WebKitWebView *v,
@@ -531,6 +532,8 @@ newclient(void)
                         G_CALLBACK(progresschanged), c);
        g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(v), "notify::title",
                         G_CALLBACK(titlechanged), c);
+       g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(v), "notify::uri",
+                        G_CALLBACK(urichanged), c);
        g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(v), "button-release-event",
                         G_CALLBACK(buttonreleased), c);
        g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(v), "close",
@@ -591,8 +594,6 @@ loaduri(Client *c, const char *uri)
                        free(apath);
        }
 
-       setatom(c, AtomUri, url);
-
        if (strcmp(url, geturi(c)) == 0) {
                a.i = 0;
                reload(c, &a);
@@ -600,9 +601,7 @@ loaduri(Client *c, const char *uri)
                if (!useragent)
                        randuseragent(c);
                webkit_web_view_load_uri(c->view, url);
-               updatetitle(c);
        }
-
        g_free(url);
 }
 
@@ -1159,7 +1158,7 @@ loadchanged(WebKitWebView *v, WebKitLoadEvent e, Client 
*c)
 
        switch (e) {
        case WEBKIT_LOAD_STARTED:
-               setatom(c, AtomUri, uri);
+               c->overtitle = NULL;
                c->title = uri;
                c->https = c->insecure = 0;
                seturiparameters(c, uri, loadtransient);
@@ -1169,7 +1168,7 @@ loadchanged(WebKitWebView *v, WebKitLoadEvent e, Client 
*c)
                        g_clear_object(&c->failedcert);
                break;
        case WEBKIT_LOAD_REDIRECTED:
-               setatom(c, AtomUri, uri);
+               c->overtitle = NULL;
                c->title = uri;
                seturiparameters(c, uri, loadtransient);
                break;
@@ -1200,6 +1199,12 @@ titlechanged(WebKitWebView *view, GParamSpec *ps, Client 
*c)
        updatetitle(c);
 }
 
+void
+urichanged(WebKitWebView *view, GParamSpec *ps, Client *c)
+{
+       setatom(c, AtomUri, geturi(c));
+}
+
 void
 mousetargetchanged(WebKitWebView *v, WebKitHitTestResult *h, guint modifiers,
     Client *c)


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