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Kiosk-like WebExtension for Firefox
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bug when opening local files #20

Open IanW123 opened 5 years ago

IanW123 commented 5 years ago

With Modern Kiosk enabled, when opening a local file, such as file:///C:myfile.html (or C:myfile.html) instead of the html file being displayed in Firefox, the following url opens in full screen instead!! http://www.example.org/

Update: This is also happening with http://localhost/myfile.html using Xampp on Win7.

This bizarre anomaly is extraordinarily obtrusive. There doesn`t seem to be a way to stop the example.org url from displaying.

If there is a fix for this, we would be most grateful for the solution. thanks! Ian :)

hecaxmmx commented 5 years ago

Hi @IanW123

Mozilla mentions in a Wiki page that they haven't planned to open local files like file:/// due security issues. Wiki Filesystem

In Linux I can access to CUP printer server in localhost [CUPS printing] (http://localhost:631) I don't have any problem with it. Right now I don't have Windows let me try later.

Regards

hecaxmmx commented 5 years ago

Hi @IanW123 After a half an hour installing xampp and testing personal pages, all work fine for me in Win10 and Firefox 68.02.

Possible problems:

  1. Win7 or Firefox version xx.xx have problems (incompatibility). This is out of scope for us.
  2. You're trying to run with web-ext. If this is the case, please prepare your own package of this extension see this Wiki page and this thread

Regards