diff --git a/ElectronClient/app/gui/NoteRevisionViewer.jsx b/ElectronClient/app/gui/NoteRevisionViewer.jsx
index a7fb6d4a8..6fc3eafa1 100644
--- a/ElectronClient/app/gui/NoteRevisionViewer.jsx
+++ b/ElectronClient/app/gui/NoteRevisionViewer.jsx
@@ -7,13 +7,15 @@ const HelpButton = require('./HelpButton.min');
 const BaseModel = require('lib/BaseModel');
 const Revision = require('lib/models/Revision');
 const Note = require('lib/models/Note');
+const urlUtils = require('lib/urlUtils');
 const Setting = require('lib/models/Setting');
 const RevisionService = require('lib/services/RevisionService');
 const shared = require('lib/components/shared/note-screen-shared.js');
 const MarkupToHtml = require('lib/renderers/MarkupToHtml');
 const { time } = require('lib/time-utils.js');
 const ReactTooltip = require('react-tooltip');
-const { substrWithEllipsis } = require('lib/string-utils');
+const { urlDecode, substrWithEllipsis } = require('lib/string-utils');
+const { bridge } = require('electron').remote.require('./bridge');
 
 class NoteRevisionViewerComponent extends React.PureComponent {
 	constructor() {
@@ -32,6 +34,7 @@ class NoteRevisionViewerComponent extends React.PureComponent {
 		this.revisionList_onChange = this.revisionList_onChange.bind(this);
 		this.importButton_onClick = this.importButton_onClick.bind(this);
 		this.backButton_click = this.backButton_click.bind(this);
+		this.webview_ipcMessage = this.webview_ipcMessage.bind(this);
 	}
 
 	style() {
@@ -121,11 +124,42 @@ class NoteRevisionViewerComponent extends React.PureComponent {
 			codeTheme: theme.codeThemeCss,
 			userCss: this.props.customCss ? this.props.customCss : '',
 			resources: await shared.attachedResources(noteBody),
+			postMessageSyntax: 'ipcProxySendToHost',
 		});
 
 		this.viewerRef_.current.wrappedInstance.send('setHtml', result.html, { cssFiles: result.cssFiles });
 	}
 
+	async webview_ipcMessage(event) {
+		// For the revision view, we only suppport a minimal subset of the IPC messages.
+		// For example, we don't need interactive checkboxes or sync between viewer and editor view.
+		// We try to get most links work though, except for internal (joplin://) links.
+
+		const msg = event.channel ? event.channel : '';
+		const args = event.args;
+
+		if (msg !== 'percentScroll') console.info(`Got ipc-message: ${msg}`, args);
+
+		try {
+			if (msg.indexOf('joplin://') === 0) {
+				throw new Error(_('Unsupported link or message: %s', msg));
+			} else if (urlUtils.urlProtocol(msg)) {
+				if (msg.indexOf('file://') === 0) {
+					require('electron').shell.openExternal(urlDecode(msg));
+				} else {
+					require('electron').shell.openExternal(msg);
+				}
+			} else if (msg.indexOf('#') === 0) {
+				// This is an internal anchor, which is handled by the WebView so skip this case
+			} else {
+				console.warn(`Unsupported message in revision view: ${msg}`);
+			}
+		} catch (error) {
+			console.warn(error);
+			bridge().showErrorMessageBox(error.message);
+		}
+	}
+
 	render() {
 		const theme = themeStyle(this.props.theme);
 		const style = this.style();
@@ -149,7 +183,7 @@ class NoteRevisionViewerComponent extends React.PureComponent {
 		const titleInput = (
 			<div style={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'row', alignItems: 'center', marginBottom: 10, borderWidth: 1, borderBottomStyle: 'solid', borderColor: theme.dividerColor, paddingBottom: 10 }}>
 				<button onClick={this.backButton_click} style={Object.assign({}, theme.buttonStyle, { marginRight: 10, height: theme.inputStyle.height })}>
-					{`⬅ ${_('Back')}`}
+					<i style={theme.buttonIconStyle} className={'fa fa-chevron-left'}></i>{_('Back')}
 				</button>
 				<input readOnly type="text" style={style.titleInput} value={this.state.note ? this.state.note.title : ''} />
 				<select disabled={!this.state.revisions.length} value={this.state.currentRevId} style={style.revisionList} onChange={this.revisionList_onChange}>
@@ -162,7 +196,7 @@ class NoteRevisionViewerComponent extends React.PureComponent {
 			</div>
 		);
 
-		const viewer = <NoteTextViewer viewerStyle={{ display: 'flex', flex: 1 }} ref={this.viewerRef_} onDomReady={this.viewer_domReady} />;
+		const viewer = <NoteTextViewer viewerStyle={{ display: 'flex', flex: 1 }} ref={this.viewerRef_} onDomReady={this.viewer_domReady} onIpcMessage={this.webview_ipcMessage} />;
 
 		return (
 			<div style={style.root}>