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sylvainrodrigue
Brass Contributor
Apr 10, 2019

How the new Edge will handle file:// URI ?

file: links seems to be ignored in this version of Edge (like they are in Chrome). In the previous version of Edge however (and all IE versions), clicking on a file: link opens the original document....
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Mr_TJ
Copper Contributor
Feb 11, 2020

Nothing new about this?
A GPO would be nice, where file links could be alowed for defindes file Servers.

Like Firefox has it:

Firefox:

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Enter about:support to the address bar.
  3. Click Open Directory for Profile Directory.
  4. Create or open user.js and add the following lines:
user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "file:///[[PUT SERVER NAME HERE]]";);
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled",  "allAccess");
  1. Restart Firefox
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    Bartdude
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 03, 2020

    Mr_TJ 

    You can do this straight from the about:config dialogue. Open the following page: about:config of Firefox. I am not 100% sure if it works without a restart using this method.
    Right click - New - String.
    Name: "capability.policy.policynames" value: "localfilelinks"
    Name: "capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled" value: "allAccess"
    Name: "capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites" value: "http://site1 http://site2:8080 https://site3"
    Note that the sites are a space-separated list. Include protocol. Include port numbers if they are not the default.

     

    And I support an application where linking to files on network drives is still used. Which is why it was convenient that IE supported it. And worthwhile to get Firefox to work as well.

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