Javafx Stop Opening Url in Webview - Open in Browser Instead

The embedded WebView browser I am using needs special handling for particular URLs, to open them in the native default browser instead of WebView. The actual browsing part works fine but I need to stop the WebView from displaying that page as well. I can think of several ways to do it but none of them work. Here is my code:

this.wv.getEngine().locationProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<String>() {
    @Override
    public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends String> observable, String oldValue, String newValue)
    {
        Desktop d = Desktop.getDesktop();
        try
        {
            URI address = new URI(observable.getValue());
            if ((address.getQuery() + "").indexOf("_openmodal=true") > -1)
            {
                // wv.getEngine().load(oldValue); // 1
                // wv.getEngine().getLoadWorker().cancel(); // 2
                // wv.getEngine().executeScript("history.back()"); // 3
                d.browse(address);
            }
        }
        catch (IOException | URISyntaxException e)
        {
            displayError(e);
        }
    }
});

A bit more info about what happens in each of three cases

1. Loading the previous address

wv.getEngine().load(oldValue);

This kills the JVM. Funnily enough, the page opens fine in the native browser.

# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x000000005b8fef38, pid=7440, tid=8000
#
# JRE version: 7.0_09-b05
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (23.5-b02 mixed mode windows-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [jfxwebkit.dll+0x2fef38]  Java_com_sun_webpane_platform_BackForwardList_bflItemGetIcon+0x184f58
#
# Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# C:\Users\Greg Balaga\eclipse\Companyapp\hs_err_pid7440.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.

2. Cancelling the worker

wv.getEngine().getLoadWorker().cancel();

Does nothing, the page loads in both the WebView and native browser.

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