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Why do these links not work? If I click on them in FF or Chrome, nothing happens – it doesn’t even try to open them!
<a href="file://someshare/dir/subdir/file.txt">Linky</a>
<a href="file:////someshare/dir/subdir/file.txt"> Linky</a>
<a href="file://\\someshare\dir\subdir\file.txt">Linky</a>
Any ideas?
In general, this is disabled because it is a security risk. See also this question:
Cross-browser link to file on local system, and the link provided by sleske to here.