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Oni: Modern Modal Editing - powered by Neovim
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Browser cannot open local files #2666

Open luator opened 5 years ago

luator commented 5 years ago

Oni Version: 0.3.7 Neovim Version (Linux only): 0.3.1 Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04

Issue: The embedded browser does not open local HTML files with the file:// protocol.

Expected behavior: The file should be opened just like some http://... file.

Actual behavior: The browser stays empty.

Steps to reproduce: Create a local HTML file. Enter the path to the file in the address field of the embedded browser using file:// (e.g. file:///home/luator/some_file.html).

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CrossR commented 5 years ago

Hi!

As far as I know, this is done by default in electron for security reasons. We can enable the functionality back again, though I think before that there needs to be a look into the security concerns of why it is blocked by default. I think all plugins that are normally enabled (such as the PDF reader etc) are also disabled inside electron.