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local page popup blocked

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caltrop
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I have always had issues with my local web pages & Firefox. If I use anything other than my local home page I go back to using Internet Explorer.

WHY?

HTML Pop-Ups are always blocked and local File Names do not work the same as in IE. I don't want to have to rewrite all my HTML just to make Firefox halfway work.

I click ALLOW and nothing happens for local pages & pop-ups.

For normal Internet Firefox is GREAT! For local HTML Firefox SUCKS!

I have always had issues with my local web pages & Firefox. If I use anything other than my local home page I go back to using Internet Explorer. WHY? HTML Pop-Ups are always blocked and local File Names do not work the same as in IE. I don't want to have to rewrite all my HTML just to make Firefox halfway work. I click ALLOW and nothing happens for local pages & pop-ups. For normal Internet Firefox is GREAT! For local HTML Firefox SUCKS!

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the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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See this support article as a start.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_do_not_work

caltrop
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Everything in that document is for ancient versions of Firefox.

Like I said I figure Firefox to be useless for local web pages and I will use Internet Explorer which does work with my local pages.

cor-el
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Try to open the file via localhost: file://localhost/C:/

caltrop
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NOPE!

It is not the file I'm having trouble with but the pop-ups my web-page wants to open up.

The pop-up blocker will NOT let me ALLOW pop-ups for my local web-page on my hard drive. It only allows for HTTP:// addresses not FILE:/// addresses.

From what I can tell it is a security feature built into Firefox that does not allow full HTML rules.

Like I said I use IE for my local page when I need it, NOT Firefox. I do not need extra security for my local pages.