diff --git a/brozzler/browser.py b/brozzler/browser.py
index 79b353f..40e6036 100644
--- a/brozzler/browser.py
+++ b/brozzler/browser.py
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ class Browser:
                 or self._waiting_on_screenshot_msg_id):
             return False
 
-        if self._outlinks:
+        if self._outlinks is not None:
             self.logger.info("got outlinks, finished browsing %s", self.url)
             return True
         elif not self._waiting_on_outlinks_msg_id:
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8825373..2448f7a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import setuptools
 
 setuptools.setup(
         name='brozzler',
-        version='1.1.dev24',
+        version='1.1.dev25',
         description='Distributed web crawling with browsers',
         url='https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler',
         author='Noah Levitt',