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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.
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Chrome new tabEnter file:///C:/Windows/explorer.exe into the Chrome address bar. A save dialog will open. Right-click any folder and select Open in new window. Navigate to the folder you want.
HTML can be used to open a folder from our local storage. In order to open a folder from our local storage, use 'HREF' attribute of HTML. In the HREF attribute, we specify the path of our folder.
For security reasons, Microsoft Edge 76+ and Chrome impose a number of restrictions on file:// URLs, including forbidding navigation to file:// URLs from non-file:// URLs. If a browser user clicks on a file:// link on an https-delivered webpage, nothing visibly happens.
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:
https://
You will probably encounter the same problem for Firefox since it usually requires LocalLink.
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