Hi, In the text below, move point to the second half of the URL and execute M-x browse-url-at-point. ``` [![Emacs]( https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/images/emacs.png)](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html ) ``` Firefox and Chromium-based browsers appear to open the URL "https// www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html". It seems that the ":" following https is deleted, but the browser actually normalizes the URL with the duplicate scheme "http://https://". You can check this by executing M-: (browse-url-url-at-point). Because thing-at-point-bounds-of-url-at-point function cannot correctly recognize URL bounds in the text. I considered changing the thing-at-point-bounds-of-url-at-point algorithm, but it would be a pain to change it without negatively impacting the current behavior. Ideally, thing-at-point-bounds-of-url-at-point will be fixed eventually, but for now, the attached patch should easily fix the problem.