Enable local file links

Make it possible to open by click a link to a local file that is disabled by Chrome.

Total ratings for Enable local file links

3.92 (Rating count: 66)

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Pros

Works well for some users
Fixes issues with opening file links
Useful for intranet sites
Good idea

Cons

Doesn't work for some users
Limited functionality
May not work with certain Chrome versions or sites
May not support certain symbols in file names

Most mentioned

Doesn't work
Works well
Useful
Chrome compatibility issues
Intranet sites

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Recent 25 reviews for Enable local file links

Recent rating average: 3.16

All time rating average: 3.92

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Timestamp	Author	Comment
2022-11-06	Nic Hamilton	broken
2022-10-18	Mark Warburton	Good idea, but doesn't work on Chrome Version 106.0.5249.119
2022-08-15	robl l	Works on all Clients (140) in our domain network
2022-07-12	Jason Atwood	Didn't work on Chrome Version 103.0.5060.114 (Official Build) (arm64). I tried several different sites/locations/string formats.
2022-02-18	Sachhyam Hada	Works very well, I've been looking for something like this for years and here it is!
2022-01-14	HOTO	doesn't work
2021-09-04	Helvetica Free	It is still trying to save a text file in a local folder. It should be pretty obvious that if you are opening a local folder, you already have it, so why the need to save it again ? It would be helpful to be able to tell the extension what to do with what kind of files, e.g. jpg... open in browser, txt... open in browser. mp3... run using ... program etc.
2021-06-10	Donnie Hall	It does what it says on the tin.
2021-05-18	Sergey Semenov	doesn't work :(
2021-03-18	Francisco Javier Gonzalez Cassio	Very useful in my work place, simple.
2021-03-17	Гол Сергей	Не работает. Doesn't work
2021-01-27	Sam Rudloff	Works well, I looked at the source and its all good and safe as of 1/27/2021
2021-01-14	Anh Trinh	wonderful!
2020-12-08	Ant Cap	Fixed our issue with Sharepoint opening file links.
2020-11-18	Hitri Krtek	Works as described. Good.
2020-11-04	Ben Aangeenbrug	Instead of opening the document from the file location it now downloads the file to the Download folder.
2020-10-28	Frédéric Gaonac'h	Works perfectly on my PCs. Thanks.
2020-08-26	Андрей Попандопуло	Doesn't work
2020-08-24	Dominic Hock	Doesnt work.
2020-06-26	Blue Dominator	For some reason, both in Chrome and MS Edge it used to open File Explorer. Now it opens a new browser tab with a list of files. How can I change it back to open File Explorer when clicking the link?
2020-04-14	αβ δτ	It's bad app and i can't open my local file, can't open app setting,can't enjoy my life, it show blank icon and it's very rubbish.
2020-02-12	RIc Ard0	Just works - thank u very much
2019-12-05	Andrea S	Perfect! Work it ! with smb link
2019-11-27	vesper group	Not working.
2019-11-14	Pavel Ermakov	Whenever I try to open a local url I get the following message in the console: "Not allowed to load local resource: <URL>". Has google shut this method down?