Open a direct file on the hard drive from firefox (file:///)

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Although i still think it is a programming question, it was answered here:
https://superuser.com/questions/103026/open-a-direct-file-on-the-hard-drive-from-firefox-file

Both Firefox and IE8 support the File URI scheme.

Here are some examples valid for
Windows systems, referring to the same
file c:\WINDOWS\clock.avi

file://localhost/c|/WINDOWS/clock.avi
file:///c|/WINDOWS/clock.avi
file://localhost/c:/WINDOWS/clock.avi
file:///c:/WINDOWS/clock.avi

While the last is the most obvious and
human-readable, the first one is the
most complete and correct one.

Apparently (from the same url):

Mozilla browsers refuse to follow file URLs on a page that it has fetched with the HTTP protocol.

but:

Mozilla browsers can be configured to override this security restriction as detailed in Mozillazine’s “Links to Local Pages Don’t Work“.

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