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StigJ
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Feb 05, 2020
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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 ...
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    Eric_Lawrence
    Feb 06, 2020
    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.
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Feb 06, 2020

StigJ After chatting with the team, they suggested checking out this article https://textslashplain.com/2019/10/09/navigating-to-file-urls/. (Which it isn't an offical MS help article, it was written by one of our Edge program managers.)

 

Let us know if you still have more questions after checking that out.

 

Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge

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Eric_Lawrence
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Feb 06, 2020
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.

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