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nikfmfgobenbhmocjaaboihbeocackld
Description from extension meta
Make it possible to open by click a link to a local file that is disabled by Chrome.
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In Google Chrome, links to local files are disabled, unlike IE.
This extension allows you to open a link to a local file by clicking it.
[Setting]
Starting with Chrome 118 in October 2023, you will need to enable the "Allow access to file URLs" setting from the extension settings page.
chrome://extensions/?id=nikfmfgobenbhmocjaaboihbeocackld
[Security]
A malicious page can not open a local file without permission, because this extension reacts only to the click operation by the user.
[Others]
Personal information is not collected / used.
Source code is released to GitHub.
https://github.com/tksugimoto/chrome-extension_open-local-file-link
Latest reviews
- (2023-09-05) Thomas Friedrich: I added the link ms-excel:ofv|u|file:///T:/IT/test.xlsx to a wiki page. It doesn't do anything when clicked. Copying it into the address bar throws a warning and then opens Excel with the file.
- (2023-08-23) Robin Beier: Works as expected! Thank you.
- (2023-08-15) Man Huen Ng: Excellent addon, perfectly works, solve the problem I spent 10 hours searching for a solution😭
- (2023-08-05) Rogerio M. Souza: Excellent ! Great job @tksugiMoto
- (2023-07-12) Zer0 Studioz: Doesn't seem to do anything. I hightly doubt it's the devs fault, I think Google is just being a**holes, but still disappointing
- (2022-11-06) Nic Hamilton: broken
- (2022-10-18) Mark Warburton: Good idea, but doesn't work on Chrome Version 106.0.5249.119
- (2022-08-15) robl l: Works on all Clients (140) in our domain network
- (2022-07-12) Jason Atwood: Didn't work on Chrome Version 103.0.5060.114 (Official Build) (arm64). I tried several different sites/locations/string formats.
- (2022-02-18) Sachhyam Hada: Works very well, I've been looking for something like this for years and here it is!
- (2022-01-14) Sechan Park: doesn't work
- (2021-09-04) Helvetica Free: It is still trying to save a text file in a local folder. It should be pretty obvious that if you are opening a local folder, you already have it, so why the need to save it again ? It would be helpful to be able to tell the extension what to do with what kind of files, e.g. jpg... open in browser, txt... open in browser. mp3... run using ... program etc.
- (2021-06-10) Donnie Hall: It does what it says on the tin.
- (2021-05-18) Sergey Semenov: doesn't work :(
- (2021-03-18) Francisco Javier Gonzalez Cassio: Very useful in my work place, simple.
- (2021-03-17) Гол Сергей: Не работает. Doesn't work
- (2021-01-27) Lily Rudloff: Works well, I looked at the source and its all good and safe as of 1/27/2021
- (2021-01-15) Anh Trinh: wonderful!
- (2020-12-08) Ant Cap: Fixed our issue with Sharepoint opening file links.
- (2020-11-18) Hitri Krtek: Works as described. Good.
- (2020-11-04) B. A.: Instead of opening the document from the file location it now downloads the file to the Download folder.
- (2020-10-28) Frédéric G: Works perfectly on my PCs. Thanks.
- (2020-08-26) Андрей Попандопуло: Doesn't work
- (2020-08-24) Dominic Hock: Doesnt work.
- (2020-06-26) Blue Dominator: For some reason, both in Chrome and MS Edge it used to open File Explorer. Now it opens a new browser tab with a list of files. How can I change it back to open File Explorer when clicking the link?
- (2020-04-14) αβ δτ: It's bad app and i can't open my local file, can't open app setting,can't enjoy my life, it show blank icon and it's very rubbish.
- (2020-02-12) Ricardo Rosenegger: Just works - thank u very much
- (2019-12-05) Andrea S: Perfect! Work it ! with smb link
- (2019-11-27) vesper group: Not working.
- (2019-11-14) Pavel Ermakov: Whenever I try to open a local url I get the following message in the console: "Not allowed to load local resource: <URL>". Has google shut this method down?
- (2019-08-01) Quentin AUGE: Fait son taff, parfait !
- (2019-07-23) 76morpheus: Cette extension ne fonctionne pas sur mon PC. je suis sur le réseau d'entreprise et mon site intranet ne permet pas avec Chrome d'ouvrir un fichier se trouvant sur le disque réseau. contrairement avec IE.
- (2019-05-22) Geoff Y: Great plugin, thanks so much. Would be perfect if it supported more symbols. I noticed that it won't support browsing folder locations if the folder name includes "#".
- (2019-05-09) Aaron Kuehner: Was nice for a couple weeks. Now it seems to not work. Maybe Chrome changed something on last update? The setting to choose specific sites doesn't allow simple aliases for intranet sites. For example I want to tell it "http://helpdesk", but it claims that's not a valid web address.
- (2019-03-07) Working well! Thanks a lot!!!
- (2018-09-21) Владимир Иванов: не работает
- (2018-06-25) Martin Prinzler: Lost the old "LocalLinks" extension. But seems to work exactly the same: Very good :)
- (2018-06-20) Achim Braemer: Great, just works!
- (2018-06-20) Koji Shiraishi: グループウェアにExcelへのファイルリンクがたくさんある会社ではとても重宝します。 ファイルリンクはChromeでクリックしても、なにも反応しなかったのでずっとこまっていました。
- (2018-05-08) Don Knisley: While it does open file links it downloads the file first and then opens it from the Downloads directory. I'm looking for something the opens directly from the file server share.
- (2018-01-26) Paul Marr Hilliard: It works with Chrome Version 63.0.3239.132. Opens the link in a new tab which is fine.
- (2017-12-21) Papy frog: Indispensable pour un intranet !
- (2017-12-12) Oleg Glushkov: Прекрасно работает. Решил свою проблемы с доступом к файлам на локальных сетевых ресурсах вместо IE.
- (2017-10-03) Wim Borghs: Well, it works... But I would like to be able to configure on which websites opening links to local files is allowed. (For Microsoft web browsers you need to add those websites to the trusted websites zone. For Firefox you need to add those websites to a capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.sites preference)
- (2017-08-08) Valentin L: Cette application est très utile pour un intranet.
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