Forum Discussion
Edge Chromium handling of FILE: link
We have an internal website with links similar to
"...
<a href="file:D:/FolderPath/JOB_FOLDER_XXX">Link Text</a
..."
When the user clicks on this link in IE11, the corresponding FOLDER
is opened in a new File Explorer window
I installed the Chrome "Enable local file links" extension in Edge hoping it would accomplish the same thing, but it just opens a new tab in Edge representing the folder.
This is not acceptable, since none of the default file type associations work
- josh_bodner
Microsoft
This is by design in all Chromium-based browsers for security reasons: https://textslashplain.com/2019/10/09/navigating-to-file-urls/. That link has some workarounds you can try.
