diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix
index 1be4f1c4c524..3ca4aafd7575 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix
@@ -53,7 +53,13 @@ in python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
     pyreadability pykeepass stem
   ];
 
+  patches = [
+    ./fix-restart.patch
+  ];
+
   postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace qutebrowser/app.py --subst-var-by qutebrowser "$out/bin/qutebrowser"
+
     sed -i "s,/usr/share/,$out/share/,g" qutebrowser/utils/standarddir.py
   '' + lib.optionalString withPdfReader ''
     sed -i "s,/usr/share/pdf.js,${pdfjs},g" qutebrowser/browser/pdfjs.py
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/fix-restart.patch b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/fix-restart.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..56f6bcebf280
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/fix-restart.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+diff --git a/qutebrowser/app.py b/qutebrowser/app.py
+index 2b6896b76..ee05f379d 100644
+--- a/qutebrowser/app.py
++++ b/qutebrowser/app.py
+@@ -555,22 +555,8 @@ class Quitter:
+                 args: The commandline as a list of strings.
+                 cwd: The current working directory as a string.
+         """
+-        if os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]) == 'qutebrowser':
+-            # Launched via launcher script
+-            args = [sys.argv[0]]
+-            cwd = None
+-        elif hasattr(sys, 'frozen'):
+-            args = [sys.executable]
+-            cwd = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(sys.executable))
+-        else:
+-            args = [sys.executable, '-m', 'qutebrowser']
+-            cwd = os.path.join(
+-                os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(qutebrowser.__file__)), '..')
+-            if not os.path.isdir(cwd):
+-                # Probably running from a python egg. Let's fallback to
+-                # cwd=None and see if that works out.
+-                # See https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/323
+-                cwd = None
++        args = ['@qutebrowser@']
++        cwd = None
+ 
+         # Add all open pages so they get reopened.
+         page_args = []