For what it's worth, the way Firefox solves this is:
* Check if the file is an absolute file path
** on Windows, X:\... or \\...
** on Posix, /...
* Otherwise, it's a URL relative to the current working directory
** So index.html resolves using the URL machinery to
file:///c:/cwd/index.html
** while http://www.google.com resolves to itself
This doesn't deal with the case firefox.exe www.google.com (which would try
to resolve as a file), but we decided not to care about this case. We do
have the explicit firefox.exe -url www.google.com which will perform URI
fixup to guess the correct URL.
--BDS
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