Can Google Chrome open local links?

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Andy picture Andy · Jan 18, 2010 · Viewed 297.4k times · Source

I am linking on an intranet page to a local file on a shared drive:

<a href="file:///s:/test.xls"> Test</a>

This works in IE and Firefox with an addon called local link.

How can I get this to open in Google Chrome?

Answer

Thomas Bonini picture Thomas Bonini · Jan 23, 2010

You can't link to file:/// from an HTML document that is not itself a file:/// for security reasons.

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