Talk:Links to local pages do not work

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Maybe a good idea to rename/move this to Links to local pages do not work. The URL-encoded apostrophe makes links posted in forums look silly. Thoughts? Jonnyq

I would not be opposed to that. The reason a contraction was used in the first place was to mirror Image tooltips don't work. --Unarmed 15:15, 29 August 2005 (PDT)

I'm using Firefox 1.5 beta 1 but the solution provided here doesn't work for me. Does is work for anyone? --Agusmba 08:52, 26 September 2005 (PDT)

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I have gotten this to work for links to local files on my "C" drive...for example:
file:///C:/test.doc

...but I cannot get it to open files that are stored on a network drive. I have tried the following:
file:///H:/test.doc
file://///myservername/mysharename/test.doc
When I click on one of the links above, nothing happens. The formats are correct, however: if I right-click on the link, select "Copy link location", and paste it into a new tab, the file opens correctly.

All of this worked in Firefox 1.0.7 just fine.

So...it looks like the security policy capability in FF 1.5 isn't quite working correctly. --Steve66 08:25, 01 December 2005 (PDT)

I managed to get user_pref("capability.policy.default.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess"); to work, which I think is equivalent to the old way of doing it, which was user_pref("security.checkloaduri", false);
I couldn't get the policynames approach to work at all, not with local files nor with network shares. Steve66 can you describe exactly what you did to get it to work with local file names. I must be missing something.
BTW deletions are not managed gracefully. Once I had added user_pref("capability.policy.default.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess"); to user.js then I had to remove it both from user.js and from prefs.js to get it to go away. 80n 21:13, 1 December 2005 (UTC)