diff --git a/webenginepart/src/webengineparthtmlembedder.h b/webenginepart/src/webengineparthtmlembedder.h
--- a/webenginepart/src/webengineparthtmlembedder.h
+++ b/webenginepart/src/webengineparthtmlembedder.h
@@ -51,6 +51,12 @@
  * 
  * `QWebEnginePage::setHtml` -> `QWebEnginePage::loadFinished` -> startExtractingUrls() -> urlsExtracted() ->
  * startReplacingUrls() -> urlsReplaced() -> startRetrievingHtml() -> htmlRetrieved() -> sendReply()
+ * 
+ * A problem can arise if the (X)HTML code contains a `<meta>` element with attribute `http-equiv="refresh"`.
+ * Since QWebEnginePage is not just a parser, it honours this refresh request and, after emitting the `loadFinished`
+ * signal, it refreshes the page, which means that `loadFinished` is emitted again and again. To avoid
+ * doing the embeddding every time, the `loadFinished` signal is disconnected after the first time it's
+ * emitted and the connection is remade the next time startEmbedding() is called. 
  *
  * @note This class uses and internal `QWebEnginePage` and an associated, off the record, `QWebEngineProfile`
  * so as not interfere with the rest of the part
diff --git a/webenginepart/src/webengineparthtmlembedder.cpp b/webenginepart/src/webengineparthtmlembedder.cpp
--- a/webenginepart/src/webengineparthtmlembedder.cpp
+++ b/webenginepart/src/webengineparthtmlembedder.cpp
@@ -64,18 +64,21 @@
         m_profile(new QWebEngineProfile(this)),
         m_page(new QWebEnginePage(m_profile, this))
 {
-    connect(m_page, &QWebEnginePage::loadFinished, this, &WebEnginePartHtmlEmbedder::startExtractingUrls);
     connect(this, &WebEnginePartHtmlEmbedder::urlsExtracted, this, &WebEnginePartHtmlEmbedder::startReplacingUrls);
     connect(this, &WebEnginePartHtmlEmbedder::urlsReplaced, this, &WebEnginePartHtmlEmbedder::startRetrievingHtml);
 }
 
 void WebEnginePartHtmlEmbedder::startEmbedding(const QByteArray& html, const QString& mimeType)
 {
+    //Try avoiding problems with redirection (see documentation for this class)
+    connect(m_page, &QWebEnginePage::loadFinished, this, &WebEnginePartHtmlEmbedder::startExtractingUrls);
     m_page->setContent(html, mimeType, QUrl::fromLocalFile("/"));
 }
 
 void WebEnginePartHtmlEmbedder::startExtractingUrls()
 {
+    //Try avoiding problems with redirection (see documentation for this class) 
+    disconnect(m_page, &QWebEnginePage::loadFinished, this, &WebEnginePartHtmlEmbedder::startExtractingUrls);
     auto lambda = [this](const QVariant &res){emit urlsExtracted(res.toStringList());};
     m_page->runJavaScript(s_extractUrlsJs, lambda);
 }
@@ -99,7 +102,8 @@
 
 void WebEnginePartHtmlEmbedder::startRetrievingHtml()
 {
-    m_page->toHtml([this](const QString &html){emit finished(html);});
+    auto callback = [this](const QString &html){emit finished(html);};
+    m_page->toHtml(callback);
 }
 
 QString WebEnginePartHtmlEmbedder::dataUrl(const QUrl& url) const
diff --git a/webenginepart/src/webenginepartkiohandler.cpp b/webenginepart/src/webenginepartkiohandler.cpp
--- a/webenginepart/src/webenginepartkiohandler.cpp
+++ b/webenginepart/src/webenginepartkiohandler.cpp
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 #include <QWebEngineUrlRequestJob>
 #include <QDebug>
 #include <QBuffer>
-#include <QEventLoop>
 
 #include <KIO/StoredTransferJob>