Oh man, still the same problem, so stick with this thread!

QTextBrowser inherits QTextEdit, not the other way around. If you what to know how the textbrowser can emit a signal like anchorClicked() have a look at the sources and find it out. Qt is open source! I haven't done it, but I guess they are reimplementing mousePressEvent(), check the current cursor at the position the event occur, and look if it is a link. if so, the signal is emitted.