Open local files(file://) using Chrome

Question

I have an page with some forms. All the links work fine in IE. They open in a new tab nicely when the hyperlink is click by the user; however, I realized that when Chrome is use the link doesn't open. I keep clicking but nothing opens. The only way of opening the file is copying the hyperlink, opening a new tab in Chrome, paste and go.

<a href="FILE:\\outsideserver\files\shared\form1.pdf" target="_blank">Form1</a>

Is this something that browser do? Because I tried it with FireFox and doesn't work either? It there a way of going around? without installing anything in the browser? Because my user loves Chrome. Thank you in advanced for the responses.

Answer 1

You can't access to files outside your server or "SandBox", sandbox include the files that user push to the browser or to your server.

If the access from browser to a pc files from web pages was possible, it would be a security problem.