Hello, I’m developing Group Speed Dial using web-extension API and I’m getting feature requests to support file:// protocol. Some people want to access their locally stored .html pages from speed-dial addon. However there is some security restriction that prevents opening any link pointing to “fi…

Opening links to local files file://

ericjung1 (Eric Jung) June 19, 2017, 7:41am 4

Juraj Masiar, can you please post a sample of the code that fails for you?

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