By default Firefox does not enable following file:/// links[1] for
security reasons. Since I run a wiki on my local machine, I like to
put in file:/// links to files that are on my system. For example,
links to the O'Reilly CD Bookshelf. In order to enable Firefox to
browse file:/// links, I added the following lines to my
user.js file located at ~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/
Profiles/*default*/ on OS X:
user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://localhost";);
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled",
"allAccess");
Notice for the .sites I used "http://localhost";. A quick test show
that I can click on file:/// links hosted by localhost but on other
systems, e.g. other wikis. So, this configuration in user.js seems
to work.
Does anyone see a reason not to have these lines in my user.js? That
is, is there some security setting I'm overlooking?
[1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don't_work
Regards,
- Robert
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