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Firefox Tip 4: Handling file uris

I read this somwhere recently, and its immensely useful in a corporate environment.

If you want firefox to be able to load uris that look like file://...

  1. Open about:config
  2. set security.checkloaduri to false

Not sure if doing so makes firefox vulnerable.. so proceed at your own risk!

Update: Use the new prefs to enable this on a per-site-basis.

  1. Open about:config
  2. Add these prefs:
    • capability.policy.policynames = localfilelinks
    • capability.policy.default.checkloaduri = noAccess
    • capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites = http://intraneturl
    • capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri = allAccess

Posted by nitin on September 6, 2005 02:00 PM |

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This KB article - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don%27t_work - discusses the preference, why it exists, and the ramifications of setting it to false.

Posted by: Unarmed | September 6, 2005 03:08 PM

I had this problem too when I needed image preview before uploading. it took a while to figure out the problem. It seems that the bugs isn't hard at all to fix but I guess it's better to threat it like a "security risk" instead of fixing it.

Posted by: Emil Tamas | September 6, 2005 03:45 PM

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