169704 - file:// scheme requires disk or volume name in Mac OS X

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 140606

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Matisse Enzer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910

(This may not be Mac OS X specific but I have only tried it in OS X and Windows
XP. Works OK in XP)

For some reason Mozilla on Mac OS X requires that you include the disk/volume
name in the URL.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter the following URL:

file:///Library/Documentation/Commands/grep/grep_1.html


Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should display the file.

Work-around:

Include the name of your primary disk/vlume, for example if your primary volume
is "MyDisk", then this URL will work:

file:///MyDisk/Library/Documentation/Commands/grep/grep_1.html

Comment 1

[Matisse Enzer]

Chjanges sample URL so it doesn't use the Developer tools.

Comment 2

[Matisse Enzer]

Buts. URL field in the bug report got messed up. Hopefully i just fixed it.
Sorry for the extra verbiage.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140606 ***

Comment 4

[benc]

VERIFIED/dupe:
If you want to avoid this problem, try Chimera.