From 15d33eb7fd657b5193a15b375ef9db97db08635f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Luk=C3=A1=C5=A1=20Tinkl?= <lukast@status.im>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 16:49:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(Global): 'Open in Browser' doesn't work in chat

strip the URL from any HTML tags before trying to open it; Qt sometimes
likes to leave some HTML tags there and that breaks the URL validity
checks further on

Fixes: #7170
---
 ui/imports/utils/Global.qml | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ui/imports/utils/Global.qml b/ui/imports/utils/Global.qml
index 3e1e900b66..518ab04fb3 100644
--- a/ui/imports/utils/Global.qml
+++ b/ui/imports/utils/Global.qml
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ QtObject {
     }
 
     function openLink(link) {
+        // Qt sometimes inserts random HTML tags; and this will break on invalid URL inside QDesktopServices::openUrl(link)
+        link = globalUtils.plainText(link);
         if (localAccountSensitiveSettings.showBrowserSelector) {
             openChooseBrowserPopup(link);
         } else {