If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web as we have found.If you are unable to load any addresses, check the computer's network connection.The site could be listed as 0 (and thus blocked) in your "hosts" file.The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy.loadError.label = "Problem loading page"įirefox can't establish a connection to the server at %address.If you want help with this, just let me (Jeff Walden, already on CC list) know and I'll see what I can do. Firefox Help uses some decently clean hacks to make this work (see bug 254982).
The latest proposed patch to the netError.dtd file is here. We're now back to discussing this in bug 301208 Due to some overlap and checkin depedencies between the rendering of the error messages ( bug 280190), and the error message text ( bug 301208) this wiki is being used to synchronize the error text changes until it's time to patch the file itself.
When clicking on other file types, such as Microsoft Office, Open Office documents, PDF files, etc., if the extension is loaded in Firefox, you will be able to browse the file with in the browser window. As long as Firefox file type associations exists, you can read text files within the browser window:
While browsing files systems is convenient, opening files is also possible.
NOTE: If the share is password protected or the Everyone group does not have share access, you will not be able to connect and browse the share using Firefox. To connect to a share, just type the computer name followed by the share name: You can browse other Computers either by first mapping a drive and using the drive letter, or by share name. You are not limited to browsing just local drives.
Or, if you know the full path to a folder, you can enter it directly in Firfox's address bar shown below: NOTE: In the below screenshot the path changes to the "File URL" format automatically.įrom here, you can navigate the file system, by clicking on folders as if you were using Windows Explorer and navigate around. To browse your hard drive, for example on a Windows Operating System such as XP or Vista, just type: Best of all, the functionality is already built into Firefox. Although it's cumbersome to use on web servers, it works great on you PC. This little trick, known as "File URL" format, allows you to browse files and directories on web servers instead of using other known protocols such as FTP.