Open a file:// protocol with UNC paths in HTML page

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Open a file:// protocol with UNC paths in HTML page

Hi - I'm trying to open a file located on a networkshare by giving the anchor tag path = file://///servername/folder/file.docx

This works in IE8 and i'm able to open the file in word, however in Firefox nothing happens. I believe it's due to some secruity settings in Firefox. I tried about:config and turning off the checkloaduri value. But it didnt solve the problem.

Does anyone know how I can make this work in both IE and Firefox.

A quick Google brought me to the following solution page from Mozillazine:

Mozillazine's "Links to Local Pages Don't Work"

sirhc 2010-06-03 08:27:12

Yeah I tried that, as in mention in my question, the checkloaduri method.

ace 2010-06-04 04:18:34

I think you missed the section on [2.1 Firefox 1.5, SeaMonkey 1.0 and newer](http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_%3a_Issues_%3a_Links_to_Local_Pages_Don%27t_Work#Firefox_1.5.2C_SeaMonkey_1.0_and_newer). Have you tried adding the `capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites` settings?

sirhc 2010-06-04 04:53:52

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