diff --git a/gooey/gui/components/console.py b/gooey/gui/components/console.py
index fdf4655..66e3e45 100644
--- a/gooey/gui/components/console.py
+++ b/gooey/gui/components/console.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import webbrowser
+
 import wx
 
 from gooey.gui.lang import i18n
@@ -34,6 +36,10 @@ class Console(wx.Panel):
          
         self.layoutComponent()
         self.Layout()
+        self.Bind(wx.EVT_TEXT_URL, self.followUrl, self.textbox)
+
+    def followUrl(self, event):
+        webbrowser.open(self.textbox.GetValue()[event.URLStart:event.URLEnd])
 
 
     def getFontStyle(self):
diff --git a/gooey/gui/components/widgets/basictextconsole.py b/gooey/gui/components/widgets/basictextconsole.py
index 26952bd..c649d00 100644
--- a/gooey/gui/components/widgets/basictextconsole.py
+++ b/gooey/gui/components/widgets/basictextconsole.py
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ import wx
 
 class BasicTextConsole(wx.TextCtrl):
     def __init__(self, parent):
-        super(BasicTextConsole, self).__init__(parent, -1, "", style=wx.TE_MULTILINE | wx.TE_READONLY | wx.TE_RICH)
+        super(BasicTextConsole, self).__init__(parent, -1, "", style=wx.TE_MULTILINE | wx.TE_READONLY | wx.TE_RICH | wx.TE_AUTO_URL )