Opening local .HTML pages stored on drive - fastaddons/GroupSpeedDial GitHub Wiki

By default, browses won't allow you to click on a link (dials are links!) which points to a locally stored ".html" file.

Solution for Chrome / Edge / Chromium based browser:

  1. open "chrome://extensions" page
  2. find "Group Speed Dial" and click "Details"
  3. enable "Allow access to file URLs"

Screenshot 2021-03-19 14 08 06

Solution for Firefox:

  1. open "about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox" page and find "Group Speed Dial" and copy "Internal UUID"
  2. open "about:config" page and create these 3 entries - all of them are type "String".
name:  "capability.policy.policynames"
value: "localfilelinks"

name:  "capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled"
value: "allAccess"

name:  "capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites"
value: "moz-extension://<Internal UUID copied in the first step>"

It should look like this (except for the UUID which will differ on each device):

Screenshot 2021-03-19 14 08 06

General solution for any web-browser - locally running HTTP server:

The solutions above should work just fine, but often is it's recommended to use a local web-server instead.
However configuring a local web-server can be complicated for normal users.
Popular lightweight web servers are "NginX" and "Apache HTTP Server".

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