Firefox network links

[dexeloper]

Does anyone have a working solution for getting local network file links to work in Firefox.
I've tried changing the 'security.fileuri ...' entry.
I've tried the 'locallink' add-on.
Don't want suggestions that haven't been tried.
I realise this could go in the ASP or Javascript forum but this seemed the correct place.
Hey ho.

 

[PhysicsGuy]

Have you tried giving an explicit file protocol as in the following example?

<a href="file://C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/VBScripts/HTML/FirefoxFileLinks/aFolder/TextFile.txt">Text File</a>

 

[dexeloper]

I'd tried variants of that before but that was a help PhysicsGuy. Many thanks.
If I open a tab in Firefox and put 'file://c:/abc.txt' the file opens but if I do it as an anchor link nothing happens. Links to other websites work fine.
I've checked my 'about:config' values.
Bit of a choker.
This is the code:
<a href="file://c:/abc.txt" target="_blank">abc</a>

 

[PhysicsGuy]

If you paste c:/abc.txt into the address bar of Windows Explorer, does Windows find the file?

 

[dexeloper]

yes it does

 

[PhysicsGuy]

<a href="file://c:/abc.txt" target="_blank">abc</a> works ok in my version of Firefox, which is 3.6.13

The only other thing I can think of: do you have a <base> tag in your html? This sets the base address of all links.

I would be willing to take a look at your complete html file if it isn't too extensive.