Firefox not able?

[skilled1]

in internet explorer, the code to view a shared directory on a network is such as

a href="file://///server/folder/directory/"

however be it

a href="file://server/folder/directory/"
or
a href="file://///server/folder/directory/"

it will not display in the window for firefox, does anyone know what the specific code is? i have been searchign for 2 days with no luck thus far.

[skilled1]

Yes i figured out the probelm, as pointed out Internet Explorer is also intagrated into Windows Explorer [obvsously] and thusly is a Network Browser, able to look both at folders, and the internet.

Firefox itself is only a web browser, so, what i have to do is just up up a simple html page, that says Firefox does nto display this, and have a javascript say open IE, and open this folder on the network. Now, Does anyone know of where such a javascript exisits? or any reccomendations?

Or perhaps a Plugin for firefox that is downloadable that gives it the ability to accomplish this?

[djr33]

firefox doesn't do ftp either.

same deal.

you can download other applications for ftp, though, and maybe for networking as well.

I dunno.

maybe there are plugins, but I doubt it. Though, ff is pretty cool... might be something...

[Twey]

Firefox itself is only a web browser, so, what i have to do is just up up a simple html page, that says Firefox does nto display this, and have a javascript say open IE, and open this folder on the network.

And what about all the other web browsers? And what about people who don't have IE installed?

firefox doesn't do ftp either.

Hm? Yes it does. It can't upload (without something like FireFTP) but it can download fine.

[NXArmada]

Yes Firefox can remote servers like IE.

Firefox can't browse by network name but if you map it as a network drive it can view it fine:

file:///G:/

[Twey]

Firefox can't browse by network name but if you map it as a network drive it can view it fine:

Only from local pages. Remotely-hosted pages shouldn't have access to "local" files.

[djr33]

Hmm... maybe I don't have the newest version of FF. Carry on.

[Twey]

It's supported ftp:// URLs since at least 0.9.x, because I was using it with them then. You must have a very old version indeed. You should upgrade, there've been a lot of bugfixes and security patches since then.

[djr33]

Nah, I've got 1.something.

Weird. Maybe I just assumed it didn't. Hmm... interesting...