diff --git a/messageviewer/src/viewer/webengine/mailwebenginepage.h b/messageviewer/src/viewer/webengine/mailwebenginepage.h
--- a/messageviewer/src/viewer/webengine/mailwebenginepage.h
+++ b/messageviewer/src/viewer/webengine/mailwebenginepage.h
@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@
     Q_OBJECT
 public:
     explicit MailWebEnginePage(QObject *parent = nullptr);
-    explicit MailWebEnginePage(QWebEngineProfile *profile, QObject *parent = nullptr);
-    ~MailWebEnginePage();
+    virtual ~MailWebEnginePage() = default;
 
     void setPrintElementBackground(bool printElementBackground);
 
diff --git a/messageviewer/src/viewer/webengine/mailwebenginepage.cpp b/messageviewer/src/viewer/webengine/mailwebenginepage.cpp
--- a/messageviewer/src/viewer/webengine/mailwebenginepage.cpp
+++ b/messageviewer/src/viewer/webengine/mailwebenginepage.cpp
@@ -24,21 +24,25 @@
 using namespace MessageViewer;
 
 MailWebEnginePage::MailWebEnginePage(QObject *parent)
-    : WebEngineViewer::WebEnginePage(parent)
+    : WebEngineViewer::WebEnginePage(new QWebEngineProfile, parent)
 {
+    // Set ownership of the private QWebEngineProfile here, so that it will be
+    // deleted along with the QWebEnginePage.  The profile must remain active
+    // for as long as any QWebEnginePage's belonging to it exist, see the API
+    // documentation of QWebEnginePage::QWebEnginePage(QWebEngineProfile *, QObject *).
+    // Deleting it as our child on destruction is safe.
+    //
+    // Do not change this to try to set the parent on construction:
+    //
+    //    MailWebEnginePage::MailWebEnginePage(QObject *parent)
+    //      : WebEngineViewer::WebEnginePage(new QWebEngineProfile(this), parent)
+    //
+    // because the QWebEngineProfile constructor calls out to the QWebEnginePage
+    // and crashes because the QWebEnginePage is not fully constructed yet.
+    profile()->setParent(this);
     initialize();
 }
 
-MailWebEnginePage::MailWebEnginePage(QWebEngineProfile *profile, QObject *parent)
-    : WebEngineViewer::WebEnginePage(profile, parent)
-{
-    initialize();
-}
-
-MailWebEnginePage::~MailWebEnginePage()
-{
-}
-
 void MailWebEnginePage::initialize()
 {
     settings()->setAttribute(QWebEngineSettings::JavascriptEnabled, false);
diff --git a/messageviewer/src/viewer/webengine/mailwebengineview.cpp b/messageviewer/src/viewer/webengine/mailwebengineview.cpp
--- a/messageviewer/src/viewer/webengine/mailwebengineview.cpp
+++ b/messageviewer/src/viewer/webengine/mailwebengineview.cpp
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
 #include <QContextMenuEvent>
 #include <WebEngineViewer/WebHitTest>
 
-#include <QWebEngineProfile>
 #include <QPrinter>
 
 #include <WebEngineViewer/WebHitTestResult>
@@ -81,7 +80,7 @@
     : WebEngineViewer::WebEngineView(parent)
     , d(new MessageViewer::MailWebEngineViewPrivate)
 {
-    d->mPageEngine = new MailWebEnginePage(new QWebEngineProfile(this), this);
+    d->mPageEngine = new MailWebEnginePage(this);
     setPage(d->mPageEngine);
     d->mWebViewAccessKey = new WebEngineViewer::WebEngineAccessKey(this, this);
     d->mWebViewAccessKey->setActionCollection(ac);