Firefox question

[Derek Broughton]

R Kimber wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:22:39 -0300
> Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> > Thanks.  I guess I could change browsers. Konqueror works.  I'll
>> > have to think about it.
>> 
>> It really shouldn't.  It seems like a gross breach of security for a
>> web page to permit links to local files.
> 
> It doesn't do it automatically, it pops up a window giving the user a
> warning and a choice, which seems perfectly sensible to me.  There are
> some circumstances where security is unlikely to be compromised.

Sure. There are, but the problem is relying on _users_ to know when that's
true, which is why you can't do that sort of thing in script.  The good
news is that it doesn't seem to actually execute the file if it's a script. 
Still seems a little scary.
-- 
derek