From 1156e8209a62839dc59bfdd98f355477f5cb170d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 20:57:05 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Book details: Fix a regression in the previous release that
 broke the right click search the internet function

Fixes #1842090 ["Search the internet for..." right-click options fail](https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1842090)
---
 src/calibre/gui2/__init__.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/__init__.py b/src/calibre/gui2/__init__.py
index a56acfc9aa..7fe34c7ef8 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/__init__.py
@@ -1145,6 +1145,8 @@ def open_url(qurl):
 
 
 def safe_open_url(qurl):
+    if isinstance(qurl, string_or_bytes):
+        qurl = QUrl(qurl)
     if qurl.scheme() in ('', 'file'):
         path = qurl.toLocalFile()
         ext = os.path.splitext(path)[-1].lower()[1:]