HTML file:// links : open in explorer from Chrome

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Nicolas Thery picture Nicolas Thery · Oct 18, 2013 · Viewed 46.6k times · Source

I have an html file with links like that :

<a href="N:\folder1\folder2">folder name</a>

I would like that this link opens explorer instead of a custome chrome file html based browser. This works from IE btw.

Thank you ! Nicolas.

Answer

ediblecode picture ediblecode · Oct 18, 2013

For Chrome, Safari and Opera this isn't possible due to their security model. However, there is somewhat of a solution for Chrome in that it's possible but it has two requirements:

  1. You need to get the user to install this Chrome extension
  2. It must be over https://

You will probably encounter the same problem for Firefox since it usually requires LocalLink.

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