Re: Firefox 1.5 won't load local files

On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:47:12 -0700, in message
=A0<[email protected]>, im42n8 wrote:

[top posting corrected]

> gwtc wrote:
> > im42n8 wrote:
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> >> I recently upgraded to FF 1.5.
> >>
> >> The problem is I can't get it to read an html file passed to it from=
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> >> another application.
> >>
> >> For instance, FF is identified as my primary browser in Dreamweaver.=
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> >> When I want to view the page I've been working on I hit f12 and it's=
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> >> s'posed to load in FF. Doesn't happen. Instead, FF opens a new windo=
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> >> with the default webpage instead of the file I was expecting.
> >>
> >> In another case, an applications' help files are HTML. Hitting the=20
> >> "Help" key results in FF loading a new window with the default/home=20
> >> page instead of the help file I was expecting.
> >>
> >> If I d/l a an HTML file and I hit the OPEN option in the download=20
> >> manager, FF loads the home page again.
> >>
> >> I created a 'user.js' file with the following:
> >>
> >> user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks");
> >> user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled",=20
> >> "allAccess");
> >> user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.open", "allAccess");
> >>
> >>
> >> So, how can I get FF to load the desired html file as requested?
> >>
> >>
> > try saving it to your hard drive, then in FF use Open, File and open =
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> > that way.  Does this work?
>
>
> Yes, it works that way...not the point. I don't want to have to=20
> necessarily search for a file in order to open it. I should be able to=20
> feed FF a file and have FF display it directly!
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> If FF is closed, and I ask Dreamweaver (for example) to preview the fil=
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> using FF, FF will open and display the requested file.  However, if FF=20
> is already open all I get is another instance of FF which displays the=20
> home page.
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> If I've d/l an html file and I try to open it by hitting the "Open"=20
> option from the Downloads manager, the same thing happens. Isn't there =
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> way to override this behavior?
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> It's a pain in the keister, when I'm trying to review a webpage I'm=20
> working on, to have to search for the file in I've just modified. I jus=
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> want the application to feed FF and have FF display it!
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> It's a real pain when the help file for an application is a html-based=20
> file. Instead of the help file opening up I get another instance of FF=20
> displaying the home page!
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You have not said which OS, so I will assume Windows.

If so, this [*] is a symptom of incorrect DDE settings.

[* if FF is closed it opens the page, if FF is already running it opens t=
he home page]


I don't have DreamWeaver, so I cannot tell you whether DreamWeaver
has its own DDE settings for FF, or whether it is using DDE settings=20
in the Windows registry.  Either way, check those DDE settings.


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Cheers,
Ralph

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