I would like to make a link from a web page to a file on a local filesystem and make it work in all browsers (or at least in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome).
For example, the following works in Internet Explorer:
Info here
but not in Firefox and Chrome.
Is there a way to make a link that works in all browsers?
Or a way to use javascript to detect which browser it is and then display the appropriate link based on the filename?
Links to local files on pages that were retrieved via HTTP(S) are deliberately disabled in Mozilla/Firefox, because they can be a security risk, and have been used in attacks in the past.
You can override this behaviour, however. For details, see this article in MozillaZine.
try prefixing your url with file:///
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in this piece of HTML code
PARTECIPA
the opening of the website in the Microsoft Edge browser is indicated if installed on the device.
Can anyone help me? I would like the site to open in Google Chrome and not in Edge.
How should I edit this HTML?
To open the link using the Chrome browser instead of Microsoft Edge, you can change the value of href attribute like this: PARTECIPA. Assuming that Chrome browser is installed, that should open the Chrome browser.
Problem:
If Edge is not installed on the device (mob, desk or tab) it doesn't
work
In this case, it's best to simply use a standard URL without specifying a specific browser, like this. PARTECIPA. In addition, the "googlechrome:" protocol is not a standardized protocol and probably may not work in all devices. So, you can use a standardized URL like the code snippet I posted above and let the users device choose.
Do you know if instead of chrome I can specify "default browser"
Example PARTECIPA or
something similar?
There is no standard protocol for specifying the default browser. So, best approach is to simply use a standard URL without specifying a specific browser. But if you really want to use special web protocols inside hypertext links to force web pages or files to open with particular browsers on Windows or iOS, place browser-name before the hypertext reference link.
Check this:
Open in Google Chrome
Open in Microsoft Edge
Open in Mozilla Firefox
Open in Apple Safari
Open in Opera
This function does not work!
A similar example is for IOS, which works in the following way
Example :
PARTECIPA
Google has official documentation on the Chrome iOS app’s URI scheme on its developer website.
Simply replace http with googlechrome and https with googlechromes. This means:
http://www.google.com/ becomes googlechrome://www.google.com/
https://apple.stackexchange.com/ becomes googlechromes://apple.stackexchange.com/
Previously, it supported an x-callback-url of googlechrome-x-callback://. This allowed the calling app to indicate its name and URI scheme to Chrome, which would show a back button in the address bar that closes the tab and invokes the specified URI. This feature was removed a few years ago when iOS 9 added the “Back to …” button in the status bar (but the URI scheme still works).
I have a Razor MVC application that contains a link to open a PDF stored on a file server. My code works when I run it in Visual Studio but is not working when I try it on production on the same computer. I click the link and nothing happens, I can see the path when I hover over it though. There are no errors or anything. I've tried all browsers but only really care about IE.
View
Image when I hover over the link
Any ideas why this is not working?
Filesystem URLs from remote pages (i.e. pages on other protocols like http:// or even other directories in the file system) are blocked by modern browsers for security reasons.
Here is a page describing the behaviour for Firefox (along with reasons why it exists).
Internet Explorer has joined the ranks of these modern browsers:
By default, Internet Explorer prevents navigation to Uniform Resource
Identifiers (URIs) using the "file:" protocol when the current URL
matches the following conditions:
The current URL is opened in the Internet zone or the Restricted Sites zone.
The current URL uses a protocol other than "file:".
This is a security measure designed to
prevent malicious sites from accessing system file objects.
This can be changed, but only on a per-client basis (see the MSDN article for details.)
This is HTML link to google:
Google
And it work fine
This is a link to my local file:
Local
And its not working, why?
If this is some sort of security issue, so how can I work around it? It's just for my own testing.
This sort of link to a local file will work in some browsers as long as the HTML is also called from a local file. If not, it's a security vulnerability. It won't work at all in webkit based browsers.
See <A>nchor Link to Local File? (<a href='file:///{path}'>DEAD LINK</a> not working in FireFox but in IE)
And Cross-browser link to file on local system
Due to Mozilla’s security model(as well as other modern browsers too), file://-links to local files on your computer or files on a network share do not work on (non-local) web pages; a click on such a link just does nothing. Links to local files could be useful on intranet sites like wikis.
There's an extension named LocalLink(http://locallink.mozdev.org/) for FireFox (and Thunderbird), that adds a new entry “Open Link in Local Context” to the link’s context menu. After you have installed the extension from https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/281 , you can open file://-links by right click on the link and select “Open Link in Local Context > Current Window”.
we have a website with links to a sharepoint. These features in sharepoint only work in IE so i dont want to open up firefox or chrome if that is the default browser. Is there anyway to have a
My Link
force open up in internet explorer ?
You can use javascript to inject the link in your HTML code if the client is IE, and maybe show a warning message if the browser isn't IE. Anyway you can't tell any browser to open a link using another browser.
No, definitely not.
For Firefox users, the best thing that comes to mind is to have them install the IE tab. It allows the opening of pages inside Firefox but using the IE engine - but also requires user action.
If this is run in a windows environment, you could use a PHP script to open Internet Explorer through PHPs support for COM objects.
If you are interested I can provide the script to do this.
I am looking for a way to launch a file located on our local file network for use via our local intranet using Firefox or Chrome.
The link works well in IE:
View Report
but in Firefox it shows:
View Report
is there a way to get the link to render properly?...Just a simple click from a href tag.
For Chrome, a new extension was just posted today! It's called LocalLinks and it replicates the functionality of the locallink add-on for Firefox! You'll find it on the Google Extensions page, or you can get to it directly here:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jllpkdkcdjndhggodimiphkghogcpida
Enjoy!
This is not enabled in firefox for security reasons (remember that most computers have files and applications of a sensitive nature located in similar locations, like C:\System\Windows)
you can try adding this to the user.js file for any user that needs to be able to access these links:
user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "file:///[[PUT SERVER NAME HERE]]";);
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");
Just remember that this is a security risk.
Firefox seems to want file://///Start/Of/My/Network/file.xlsx
Chrome and IE handles that too.
file://Start/Of/My/Network/file.xlsx appears to work in Chrome as well, sometimes firefox hics up on it..
There is the LocalLink add-on for firefox. It uses a context menu though...
Use IE tab (available for Chrome and Firefox) and set that to handle all links of the form file:/// by adding an autourls entry like this:
r/file:///.*
Technically this isn't opening the file in the original browser, but it gives you all the windows explorer integration you'd expect from whatever IE version you've got installed when dealing with local file links. I would advise against doing this except in cases when the browser isn't being used to access the web - e.g. for viewing internal wiki or intranet pages, due to the obvious security risk.