akregator crashes about 50% of the time, when i middle-click on a link

kontact 5.7.3 on kubuntu 18.04.

akregator randomly crashes when i try to open a link with the middle mouse 
button (which is normally set to “open in external browser”).

it works okay if i right-click and choose “open in external browser” from the 
context menu, but if i middle-click, sometimes nothing happens, and sometimes 
akregator crashes.

also, it doesn’t give me enough information in the backtrace to make the bug 
reports any good.

is there something to be done about this?

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