How do I make a file hyperlink that works in both IE and Firefox

Question

In my documentation web pages  I often need to provide links to locations  files and applications   xbap  stored on the intranet    In IE  this works fine with URLs formatted like this    lt a href  file      company org ProjectA StatsReport  gt Go to folder lt  a gt   lt a href  file      company org ProjectA Readme txt  gt Download file lt  a gt   lt a href  file      company org ProjectA Dashboard xbap  gt Run xbap lt  a gt    These links all work fine under IE  but in Firefox they don t    Does anyone know how I can format the above links to work both in IE and Firefox   Edit The above link actually work if I put them in a local file  They stop working only in Firefox when they are part of a html file on the network  not on my machine   There must be some kind of security setting in Firefox that prevents file     links from working coming from external content

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file Protocol
Opens a file on a local or network drive.

Syntax
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 file:///sDrives[|sFile]
Tokens 
sDrives
Specifies the local or network drive.

sFile
Optional. Specifies the file to open. If sFile is omitted and the account accessing the drive has permission to browse the directory, a list of accessible files and directories is displayed.

Remarks

The file protocol and sDrives parameter can be omitted and substituted with just the command line representation of the drive letter and file location. For example, to browse the My Documents directory, the file protocol can be specified as file:///C|/My Documents/ or as C:\My Documents. In addition, a single '\' is equivalent to specifying the root directory on the primary local drive. On most computers, this is C:.

Available as of Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later.

Note Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (SP1) no longer allows browsing a local machine from the Internet zone. For instance, if an Internet site contains a link to a local file, Internet Explorer 6 SP1 displays a blank page when a user clicks on the link. Previous versions of Windows Internet Explorer followed the link to the local file.

Example

The following sample demonstrates four ways to use the File protocol.

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//Specifying a drive and a file name. 

file:///C|/My Documents/ALetter.html

//Specifying only a drive and a path to browse the directory. 

file:///C|/My Documents/

//Specifying a drive and a directory using the command line representation of the directory location. 

C:\My Documents\

//Specifying only the directory on the local primary drive. 

\My Documents\

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Paste following link to directly under link button click event  otherwise use javascript to call code behind function  Protected Sub lnkOpen Click ByVal sender As Object  ByVal e As EventArgs       System Diagnostics Process Start FilePath  End Sub

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In case someone else finds this topic while using localhost in the file URIs - Internet Explorer acts completely different if the host name is localhost or 127 0 0 1 - if you use the actual hostname  it works fine  from trusted sites intranet zone    Another big difference between IE and FF - IE is fine with uris like file   server share file txt but FF requires additional slashes file     server share file txt

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just use   file       works in IE  Firefox and Chrome as far as I can tell   see http   msdn microsoft com en-us library aa767731 VS 85  aspx for more info

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At least with Chrome   I don t know about Firefox  You can drag the icon to the left of the URL in the browser to a folder location on your desktop and it will create a file that behaves as an internet shortcut   I don t know if the file format is universal yet  however Chrome seems to know what to do with it   The file produced is a  url file and contains the following         InternetShortcut      URL http   www accordingtothescriptures org prophecy 353prophecies html   You can replace the URL with anything you d like

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