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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....
apatel0708 ... are you presenting the URI and an HTML link? If so, be sure to specify the "target" attribute of the link and a "_blank" value for the attribute. This will open in a new explorer window and then the link extension will process whatever application handler exists for the file being linked.
here is an example from our codebase stripping CSS:
<a target="_blank" href="file://xxxx/xxx.pdf"> View Document </a>
in IE11 mode this opens in a new tab as expected. In non-IE mode, this opens in the same tab instance after enabling the IntranetFileLinksEnabled policy.