[GRLUG] Firefox on an external drive

[Bob Kline]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Raymond McLaughlin
<driveray at ameritech.net>wrote:

> Bob Kline wrote:
>
> > I tried Konqueror, and it finds the external
> > external drive just fine,  shows it to be at /disk2/,
> > and lists the contents.
>
> Do you know, is Konqueror browsing to the actual mount point, or is it
> following a symlinK?


I'm not sure how I would answer that.
What I can say is that I enter file:///disk2,
and it display /disk2/ and the directory
contents.

>
>
> > Entering that in to Firefox brings up nothing,
> > so it does indeed appear to be a Firefox issue.
>
> You mean it sees the mount point, but shows an empty directory?


Entering either of the items mentioned
above, a blank page results.  How it
comes to show nothing I'm not sure.

>
>
> > For now I can just use Konqueror if need be,
> > but it would still be of interest to know what
> > Firefox needs to make it happy.
> >
> >     -- Bob
>
>

   -- Bob
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