> saying that the behavior is not consistent to me and it works as I
> expect in the world's most popular browser.

I really don't think it's a valid reason to support - or not - something ;-)

Anyway:

Tests:
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/networking/testing/filetests.html

The inital bug report, and why this "feature" has not been implemented yet
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70871

Quoting:
"
There are still some major problems that make this difficult to fix.
1) Nothing in any specification, other than the behaviour of IE, says that
remote file:// URLs should be interpreted as referring to SMB shares. In fact,
the example you quoted suggests they should be interpreted as FTP URLs.
2) If we do decide to treat them as SMB shares then we have to decide what to do
on non-Windows systems where Samba might not be available or might be hard to
detect/use.
3) We have to fix potential security issues when file:// URLs could link to
remote, possibly malicious content.
4) What we do *still* won't be compatible with IE, at the least because IE
allows \ as a path separator --- even examples in this bug show that --- and
that *clearly* violates standards.
"

Note: whatever the security settings (about:config), in does not seem
to change anything in Firefox 1.5 on Windows.

Cheers,
Manu
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