Link Works in IE but not in Fire Fox

[orisis_001100]

Hey,
The following link works in IE and fire fox when loaded from a drive but when running off a web server it fails in fire fox -

<a href="file:///L:/Smart/Technical%20NOT%20TO%20BE%20EDITED/HWMM's-Technical%20Docs/">HMM Local repository</a><br>

Don't supose any one would have any ideas or suggestions on this

Thanks

:confused:

[BOB101]

Use

<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/hmm.html">HMM Local repository</a><br>

Or


<a href="hmm.html">HMM Local repository</a><br>

Of course you need to change the name of the page in the link to the name of your page.

[orisis_001100]

Hey,
Sorry need to make my self more clear - The link i posted to start with is trying to link to a network drive not to a http.

The link works fine in IE and Firefox off a local drive but once uploaded to a web server Fire fox falls over and just dosen't do anything with the command

[ray326]

What if you replace the ":" after the drive letter with "|"?

[Kevey]

Here's how I do it:
<a href="file:///X|/files/folders/sample.exe">Network Drive Filz</a>

[orisis_001100]

Hey,

THanks for the imput. Have tried what you have suggested but is still not working.

Any further ideas as this is starting to get desperate :(

Thankz

[ray326]

I think maybe Fx will address a file with a file: protocol but not a directory. ???

[Orc Scorcher]

Mozilla doesn't allow pages loaded via http to access any resource via the file protocol. There's a pref to override this, use your favourite search engine to find it if you're interested.

[Kevey]

You can open your server directories (and even executables) via FF with an html page (I run execs on my server via FF every day at work). Try this following code:

<a href="file:///p|\Program Files\">P Drive</a>


The only reason I have seen this not work on a server is when the user doesn't have it mapped properly on their local machine...although I am sure there are many other reasons why it wouldn't work.

Also, here's a FF add-on that may work for you:
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon.php?id=207

Quote from Mozilla on this add-on:
"Allows you to open any file from the internet into the OS assigned program. This is similar to IE's 'Open' or 'Run' file download functionality."
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[Orc Scorcher]

If this works for you then you have set the preferences to allow it, it is definitely not allowed with the default settings.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don't_work

[Kevey]

If this works for you then you have set the preferences to allow it, it is definitely not allowed with the default settings.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don't_work


OK, I am sure that you know better than I do. All I know is I downloaded FF 1.5.0.3 and it worked straight outta the box. I read the article and don't have a clue how to set up that "user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");" stuff even after reading it. I am not a tech geek, just a user. It works for me. I can view and browse the contents of my local drive and mapped drives and also launch executables thanks to the add-on. Did the add-on give me this functionality...cuz I didn't tweak anything.