Android support for opening local .html files

[charliep51]

The lack of this feature is crippling for my desired use of Firefox to open a page of links to other files (e.g., video, pdf, etc.)

[Jon]

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[ra_shoe]

This would be great for a locally-developed website, especially for developers who can't afford or don't want to host their site elsewhere!

I have a collection of HTML files on my tablet's storage that I access regularly without turning on wifi since it saves battery, I don't always have wifi, and my tablet is slow. It is a hack, and only Firefox does it, which I am thankful for. And it only works on old Android versions (9 maybe.? Lol). You have to hook up your device to a PC running Firefox and then remote debug your device and set the URL from your PC to the correct file. And never close that tab after that!

I guess another workaround is to run a local HTTP server.

[tilwiti]

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1329243 2021 omg

[schottle]

Every other Android browser supports some form of the file:// or content:// protocols.  Like Firefox used to before the rewrite.  Come on Mozilla.  As long as you disable these from being set on window.location, what's the security issue?

[Xtian]

Firefox stands for free software. Isn't one of the reasons of free software to motivate people to write their own software? I wrote lots of software in html files with javascript. With my old smartphone and a some month old Firefox it is possible to open local stored html files, because before you reduced firefox some years ago I stored the links to local html files in the menu item "Sammlung" (german language) - maybe it is collection in english language. With my new smartphone and newest firefox, I can't open local stored html files. I can't even use a local stored start page in firefox.