Andrew Mutch wrote:

> Mitch,
> 
> Thanks for the prompt response. This question came to the K-Meleon
> project from a user who wanted to allow access to the location bar but
> needed to block access to the hard drive. Since you can allow/disallow
> all menus, menu items, tool and menu bars, toolbar buttons and
> short-cut keys in K-Meleon, you can easily create a "kiosk mode".
> However, it sounds like disabling the location bar wasn't an option
> for that user.
> 
> Just out of curiousity, how does Mozilla handle links to the hard
> drive from a web page? If someone created a link to C:\ on a web page
> or called it with Javascript, how does the browser handle that?
> 
> Andrew


Take a look at

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/caps/src/nsScriptSecurityManager.cpp#822

It's controlled through a list that defines the allowed actions. In case 
of the file url it is PrefControlled.

Andreas



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