Question

I made a webpage that I can view in two ways.

1. If I run it on a local webserver, the beginning of the address starts with 127.0.0.1

2. Without a webserver, I can load the file in the browser and the address will start with file:///

I have a chrome plugin that I’m trying to use with this webpage. It doesn’t work when the page is accessed in the second way.

I read that this can be fixed by manually changing a setting to allow the plugin to still function on webpages that are files. However the description of the process was unclear and I was not able to get it to work.

How can I get this to work?

Answer 1

Go to chrome://extensions/

Click on that arrow mark (it’s kinda small, and not so clear) to the left of the plugin you want to allow and then check the

Allow access to file URLS

You are good