diff --git a/interface/src/ui/overlays/Web3DOverlay.cpp b/interface/src/ui/overlays/Web3DOverlay.cpp
index a8a82c74b7..fbea492d1d 100644
--- a/interface/src/ui/overlays/Web3DOverlay.cpp
+++ b/interface/src/ui/overlays/Web3DOverlay.cpp
@@ -138,11 +138,8 @@ void Web3DOverlay::destroyWebSurface() {
     // Fix for crash in QtWebEngineCore when rapidly switching domains
     // Call stop on the QWebEngineView before destroying OffscreenQMLSurface.
     if (rootItem) {
-        QObject* obj = rootItem->findChild<QObject*>("webEngineView");
-        if (obj) {
-            // stop loading
-            QMetaObject::invokeMethod(obj, "stop");
-        }
+        // stop loading
+        QMetaObject::invokeMethod(rootItem, "stop");
     }
 
     _webSurface->pause();
@@ -152,6 +149,11 @@ void Web3DOverlay::destroyWebSurface() {
 
     // If the web surface was fetched out of the cache, release it back into the cache
     if (_cachedWebSurface) {
+        // If it's going back into the cache make sure to explicitly set the URL to a blank page
+        // in order to stop any resource consumption or audio related to the page.
+        if (rootItem) {
+            rootItem->setProperty("url", "about:blank");
+        }
         auto offscreenCache = DependencyManager::get<OffscreenQmlSurfaceCache>();
         // FIXME prevents crash on shutdown, but we shoudln't have to do this check
         if (offscreenCache) {