From 72609bee189e8c45056d2773ab50b50242eb3034 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Damien Elmes <gpg@ankiweb.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:49:35 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] add option to webview to skip external browser open

---
 qt/aqt/webview.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/qt/aqt/webview.py b/qt/aqt/webview.py
index bef02d634..814ad2d0e 100644
--- a/qt/aqt/webview.py
+++ b/qt/aqt/webview.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ class AnkiWebPage(QWebEnginePage):
         QWebEnginePage.__init__(self)
         self._onBridgeCmd = onBridgeCmd
         self._setupBridge()
+        self.open_links_externally = True
 
     def _setupBridge(self):
         class Bridge(QObject):
@@ -98,6 +99,9 @@ class AnkiWebPage(QWebEnginePage):
         sys.stdout.write(buf)
 
     def acceptNavigationRequest(self, url, navType, isMainFrame):
+        if not self.open_links_externally:
+            return super().acceptNavigationRequest(url, navType, isMainFrame)
+
         if not isMainFrame:
             return True
         # data: links generated by setHtml()
@@ -238,6 +242,9 @@ class AnkiWebView(QWebEngineView):
             return False
         return False
 
+    def set_open_links_externally(self, enable: bool) -> None:
+        self._page.open_links_externally = enable
+
     def onEsc(self):
         w = self.parent()
         while w: