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New Edge: How to unblock specific file types in specific locations
Just installed the new Edge browser and so far I am very, very happy with it. It seems faster and more reliable (couple of hiccups) than most other browsers and it does not use GBs of memory. It ...
- To elaborate on this a little bit, Edge (and Chromium-based browsers) block link navigation to file:// URLs from pages loaded over HTTP/HTTPS.
If you copy/paste the file URL to the address bar, or if you click on the link from a page loaded from another file:// URL, it should work just fine.
@StigJ Thanks for reaching out. We're so glad to hear that you're liking Edge so far!
If I'm reading your post correctly, it sounds like you're asking about group policies, so I'll move this post to our Enterprise team's section, so they can get some visibility into it. Please let me know if you don't hear back or if you were actually asking about something else!