SID-00038: Can't browse file://///private/documents/abc.doc in firefox

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I have a problem with a links file://///private/documents/abc.doc in firefox (IE works fine).

If I do a view source and save it as a local file it works fine. If a copy and paste a link to the address bar it does work.

It looka like that link is not recognised. It is very odd

Could you help with it?

-- TomaszTrochanowski - 15 Jan 2009

Discussion and Answer

Firefox doesn't allow access to local links by default (that's a security precaution). See these two link on how to enable local links:

• MozillaBrowserIssues
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don%27t_work

-- MartinKaufmann - 15 Jan 2009

I dont think so that this would solve a problem:

user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://sam");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");

I dont understand this line user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://sam"); - I have a problem with file:///// not http://

Whats more: You create a file.htm from a source code from twiki page (with not working link) and it works as a local file. Nothing is blocked behaves as the IE.

-- TomaszTrochanowski - 15 Jan 2009

Where do you encounter these local links? I assumed that they are embedded in a web page (e.g. in your TWiki installation). The URL of this web page usually starts with http:// meaning that the origin of the local links is considered to be a remote site.

I had the same issue when I tried to include links from our wiki to our Windows file server. I managed to get these links working in Firefox by following the procedure outlined above.

-- MartinKaufmann - 15 Jan 2009

I have the same problem but I store a bunch of documentation files on a Windows file server. Twiki is installed on the other server (RH Linux). Now if you browse in firefox Twiki and come across a link to documentation in a Windows file server file://///server/documents/abc.doc I havent a web server on Windows machine.

-- TomaszTrochanowski - 16 Jan 2009

Firefox has a tighter security model than IE. Too much so, IMHO.

You can get IE-like behavior with a couple of Firefox plugins: see http://ietab.mozdev.org or http://ieview.mozdev.org

-- SeanCMorgan - 13 Feb 2009

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