diff --git a/src/Mod/Web/Gui/BrowserView.cpp b/src/Mod/Web/Gui/BrowserView.cpp
index c2e288e9b2..7259342d42 100644
--- a/src/Mod/Web/Gui/BrowserView.cpp
+++ b/src/Mod/Web/Gui/BrowserView.cpp
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ public:
     {
         if (info.navigationType() == QWebEngineUrlRequestInfo::NavigationTypeLink) {
             // invoke thread safe.
-            QMetaObject::invokeMethod(m_parent, "onLinkClicked",
+            QMetaObject::invokeMethod(m_parent, "urlFilter",
                                       Q_ARG(QUrl, info.requestUrl()));
 
         }
@@ -346,6 +346,9 @@ BrowserView::BrowserView(QWidget* parent)
 
     interceptLinks = new WebEngineUrlRequestInterceptor(this);
     profile->setRequestInterceptor(interceptLinks);
+
+    view->settings()->setAttribute(QWebEngineSettings::AutoLoadIconsForPage, true);
+
 #endif
     view->setAttribute(Qt::WA_OpaquePaintEvent, true);
 
@@ -386,7 +389,11 @@ BrowserView::~BrowserView()
     delete view;
 }
 
+#ifdef QTWEBENGINE
+void BrowserView::urlFilter(const QUrl &url)
+#else
 void BrowserView::onLinkClicked (const QUrl & url)
+#endif
 {
     QString scheme   = url.scheme();
     QString host     = url.host();
diff --git a/src/Mod/Web/Gui/BrowserView.h b/src/Mod/Web/Gui/BrowserView.h
index 4a3185e6b3..b8a5b8fba6 100644
--- a/src/Mod/Web/Gui/BrowserView.h
+++ b/src/Mod/Web/Gui/BrowserView.h
@@ -108,15 +108,16 @@ protected Q_SLOTS:
     void onLoadStarted();
     void onLoadProgress(int);
     void onLoadFinished(bool);
-    void onLinkClicked (const QUrl& url);
     bool chckHostAllowed(const QString& host);
 #ifdef QTWEBENGINE
     void onDownloadRequested(QWebEngineDownloadItem *request);
     void setWindowIcon(const QIcon &icon);
+    void urlFilter(const QUrl &url);
     void onViewSource(const QUrl &url);
 #else
     void onDownloadRequested(const QNetworkRequest& request);
     void onUnsupportedContent(QNetworkReply* reply);
+    void onLinkClicked (const QUrl& url);
 #endif
     void onOpenLinkInExternalBrowser(const QUrl& url);
     void onOpenLinkInNewWindow(const QUrl&);