Closed Bug 1421468 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Access to file:// URLs or reading files without any explicit user input

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
58 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1246236

People

(Reporter: s1375422, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20171127135700

Steps to reproduce:

Webextension addons calls for a html saved in the computer. File:///
https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/Filesystem
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/opening-links-to-local-files-file/16449/4


Actual results:

Blank page. Webextensions are not using saved files for "security risk".


Expected results:

Redirect to the actual html.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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