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By default Firefox does not allow you to follow hyperlinks to local directories.

To change this for versions of Firefox <1.5, this Mozilla Knowledge base article tells us to:

Type about:config into the Location bar and hit Enter. Find the entry for security.checkloaduri and change its value to false by double-clicking it. Then, restart your browser.

For newer versions of Firefox just follow the complex sounding instructions from that article. Alternatively this Firefox extension: Policy Manager may give you an easier go at it.

Here are a few other helpful websites for this issue:
Linking to local file under Firefox
file Protocol

Unfortunately I still have not figured out how to have a user be able to click on a link to a local resource in Firefox and have Windows Explorer open up that folder (i.e. the way it happens in Internet Explorer). I’ll keep looking.

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