diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f69d0dea9f91f..3a9a5f7a2b0f6 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1116,6 +1116,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-general-category",
  "unicode-segmentation",
  "unicode-width",
+ "url",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1201,6 +1202,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "log",
  "once_cell",
+ "open",
  "pulldown-cmark",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
@@ -1272,7 +1274,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
  "toml",
- "url",
  "which",
 ]
 
@@ -1602,6 +1603,16 @@ version = "1.17.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b7e5500299e16ebb147ae15a00a942af264cf3688f47923b8fc2cd5858f23ad3"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "open"
+version = "3.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2078c0039e6a54a0c42c28faa984e115fb4c2d5bf2208f77d1961002df8576f8"
+dependencies = [
+ "pathdiff",
+ "windows-sys 0.42.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "parking_lot"
 version = "0.12.1"
@@ -1625,6 +1636,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.45.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pathdiff"
+version = "0.2.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8835116a5c179084a830efb3adc117ab007512b535bc1a21c991d3b32a6b44dd"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "percent-encoding"
 version = "2.2.0"
@@ -2406,6 +2423,21 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-targets 0.48.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "windows-sys"
+version = "0.42.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5a3e1820f08b8513f676f7ab6c1f99ff312fb97b553d30ff4dd86f9f15728aa7"
+dependencies = [
+ "windows_aarch64_gnullvm 0.42.2",
+ "windows_aarch64_msvc 0.42.2",
+ "windows_i686_gnu 0.42.2",
+ "windows_i686_msvc 0.42.2",
+ "windows_x86_64_gnu 0.42.2",
+ "windows_x86_64_gnullvm 0.42.2",
+ "windows_x86_64_msvc 0.42.2",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "windows-sys"
 version = "0.45.0"
diff --git a/helix-core/Cargo.toml b/helix-core/Cargo.toml
index 244cfbc10a004..9933416344c11 100644
--- a/helix-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/helix-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ log = "0.4"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
 toml = "0.7"
+url = "2.3.1"
 
 imara-diff = "0.1.0"
 
diff --git a/helix-core/src/lib.rs b/helix-core/src/lib.rs
index 14abf0162079f..c03a2b3f82267 100644
--- a/helix-core/src/lib.rs
+++ b/helix-core/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 pub use encoding_rs as encoding;
+pub use url;
 
 pub mod auto_pairs;
 pub mod chars;
diff --git a/helix-term/Cargo.toml b/helix-term/Cargo.toml
index f7496087a68e7..e892e0a24a57e 100644
--- a/helix-term/Cargo.toml
+++ b/helix-term/Cargo.toml
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ ignore = "0.4"
 pulldown-cmark = { version = "0.9", default-features = false }
 # file type detection
 content_inspector = "0.2.4"
+# openning URLs
+open = "3.2.0"
 
 # config
 toml = "0.7"
diff --git a/helix-term/src/commands.rs b/helix-term/src/commands.rs
index 116c637879ee3..8d5e366859666 100644
--- a/helix-term/src/commands.rs
+++ b/helix-term/src/commands.rs
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ use helix_core::{
     textobject,
     tree_sitter::Node,
     unicode::width::UnicodeWidthChar,
+    url::Url,
     visual_offset_from_block, Deletion, LineEnding, Position, Range, Rope, RopeGraphemes,
     RopeSlice, Selection, SmallVec, Tendril, Transaction,
 };
@@ -328,7 +329,7 @@ impl MappableCommand {
         goto_implementation, "Goto implementation",
         goto_file_start, "Goto line number <n> else file start",
         goto_file_end, "Goto file end",
-        goto_file, "Goto files in selection",
+        goto_file, "Goto files/URLs in selection",
         goto_file_hsplit, "Goto files in selection (hsplit)",
         goto_file_vsplit, "Goto files in selection (vsplit)",
         goto_reference, "Goto references",
@@ -1177,6 +1178,16 @@ fn goto_file_impl(cx: &mut Context, action: Action) {
     for sel in paths {
         let p = sel.trim();
         if !p.is_empty() {
+            if let Ok(url) = Url::parse(p) {
+                if let Err(e) = open::that(url.as_str()) {
+                    cx.editor.set_error(format!(
+                        "Open file failed for url '{}': {:?}",
+                        url.as_str(),
+                        e
+                    ));
+                }
+                return;
+            }
             if let Err(e) = cx.editor.open(&PathBuf::from(p), action) {
                 cx.editor.set_error(format!("Open file failed: {:?}", e));
             }
diff --git a/helix-view/Cargo.toml b/helix-view/Cargo.toml
index 9ffef00ef8f06..3906dd4b6982c 100644
--- a/helix-view/Cargo.toml
+++ b/helix-view/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ helix-vcs = { version = "0.6", path = "../helix-vcs" }
 
 # Conversion traits
 once_cell = "1.17"
-url = "2"
 
 arc-swap = { version = "1.6.0" }
 
diff --git a/helix-view/src/document.rs b/helix-view/src/document.rs
index bd3c465d41dde..35d6e90ae314a 100644
--- a/helix-view/src/document.rs
+++ b/helix-view/src/document.rs
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ where
 }
 
 use helix_lsp::{lsp, Client, LanguageServerName};
-use url::Url;
+use helix_core::url::Url;
 
 impl Document {
     pub fn from(