[GRLUG] Firefox on an external drive

[Steve Romanow]

Bob Kline wrote:
> Tried entering /media.  The floppy and
> cdrom appear, but not the hard drives.
>
> Entering file:///, one of the items is
> "media," and shows the same things
> as just entering /media.
>
> But another item is /disk2, which
> shows nothing if I left click on it.
>
>     -- Bob
>
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Ben DeMott <ben.demott at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ben.demott at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     To more precisely answer your question - you shouldn't need the
>     file argument (just type /media) into firefox for example - I
>     should have mentioned this in my last email.
>
>     On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com
>     <mailto:bob.kline at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         I've mounted an external hard drive
>         on a USB 2 connection.  Works fine,
>         and I can do all the things one would
>         expect to go.
>
>         Except access it via Firefox.
>
>         I enter the URL file:/// and view the
>         contents of the root directory.  I can
>         then left click on most entries and see
>         the contents.
>
>         But not the external drive.  So, say the
>         external drive is /disk2.  If I enter the
>         URL file:///disk2 in to Firefox I get nothing.
>         "ls /disk2" from a console window works fine.
>
>         Running Kubuntu 9.04.
>
>         Suggestions?
>
>            -- Bob
>
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Just to put my input in context, here is the source link.

http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/WikiGoodiesPlugin#MoreaboutUNCpathsupport

Turning off the UNC paths transformation might be seen as a security 
measure <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don%27t_work> 
and if someone can demonstrate that this feature presents a security 
risk, I'll disable it by default in future releases. But here, the 
"file:" links are user-oriented and can't possibly be embedded in a 
<img> tag or Javascript code, so I don't really see what could be the 
risk, and I think it's OK to enable this feature by default.

Firefox doesn't do anything with the file: links, but users can use the 
LocalLink <http://locallink.mozdev.org/> plugin (install 
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/281>).

Alternatively, I use the /"Open Link in Ext.App."/ contextual menu entry 
provided by the IETab <http://ietab.mozdev.org/> plugin (install 
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419>), and this works 
great.