303226 - links pointing to local pdf files are not opened

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 84128

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Gerben]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

links referring to pdf documents in local directories e.g.
<a href="file:///D:/SynPat_pdf/61/978/appl.pdf" target=viewpdf>test<img
src=/images/pdf_15_16.gif alt=pdf height=16 width=15 border=0></a>
does not open the pdf file.
If I copy the address to the location bar it opens the pdf file properly
I tested it in Internet Explorer as well and in Internet explorer it opens the
pdf directly from the link.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.make a html file with a reference to a local pdf file <a href="file:///...">
2.open the html file and click the link
3.

Actual Results:  
nothing

Expected Results:  
it should have opened the local pdf file

Comment 1

[O. Atsushi (Torisugari)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84128 ***