diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 06bbe4ea80..a50b1a6e81 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@
 * Add support for indexing on OCR content changes.
 * Add support for reindexing document on content parsing
   changes.
+* Strip HTML entities from the browser's window title.
+  Closes GitLab issue #517. Thanks to Daniel Carrico @daniel1113
+  for the report.
 
 3.1.3 (2018-09-27)
 ==================
diff --git a/mayan/apps/appearance/templates/appearance/base.html b/mayan/apps/appearance/templates/appearance/base.html
index 86f99de521..ed08e66723 100644
--- a/mayan/apps/appearance/templates/appearance/base.html
+++ b/mayan/apps/appearance/templates/appearance/base.html
@@ -114,5 +114,7 @@
 
 <script>
     document.title = '{% filter escapejs %}{% spaceless %}{% block title %}{% endblock %} :: {% block project_name %}{% smart_setting "COMMON_PROJECT_TITLE" %}{% endblock %}{% endspaceless %}{% endfilter %}';
+    // Strip HTML entities from the title
+    document.title = document.title.replace(/&(?:[a-z\d]+|#\d+|#x[a-f\d]+);/ig, '');
     afterBaseLoad();
 </script>