Enable local file links icon

Enable local file links

by Takashi Sugimoto (tksugimoto)

v0.10.0 Updated Oct 18, 2025 9.57KiB
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★ 3.92
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Description

In Google Chrome, links to local files are disabled, unlike IE. This extension allows you to open a link to a local file by clicking it. [Setting] Starting with Chrome 118 in October 2023, you will need to enable the "Allow access to file URLs" setting from the extension settings page. chrome://extensions/?id=nikfmfgobenbhmocjaaboihbeocackld [Security] A malicious page can not open a local file without permission, because this extension reacts only to the click operation by the user. [Others] Personal information is not collected / used. Source code is released to GitHub. https://github.com/tksugimoto/chrome-extension_open-local-file-link
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Reviews (14 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2022-11-06
Nic Hamilton

broken

★☆☆☆☆2022-01-14
Sechan Park

doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2020-08-26
Андрей П.

Doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2020-08-24
Dominic Hock

Doesnt work.

★☆☆☆☆2020-04-14
jett hen

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.

★☆☆☆☆2019-11-27
vesper group

Not working.

★★☆☆☆2023-09-05
Thomas Friedrich

I added the link ms-excel:ofv|u|file:///T:/IT/test.xlsx to a wiki page. It doesn't do anything when clicked. Copying it into the address bar throws a warning and then opens Excel with the file.

★★☆☆☆2023-07-12
Zer0 Studioz

Doesn't seem to do anything. I hightly doubt it's the devs fault, I think Google is just being a**holes, but still disappointing

★★☆☆☆2022-10-18
Mark Warburton

Good idea, but doesn't work on Chrome Version 106.0.5249.119

★★☆☆☆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.

★★★☆☆2023-12-25
Chuck Batson

Did not work for me as of 25 Dec 2023. Linked local file was just downloaded.

★★★☆☆2020-11-04
B. A.

Instead of opening the document from the file location it now downloads the file to the Download folder.

★★★☆☆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?

★★★☆☆2018-05-08
Don Knisley

While it does open file links it downloads the file first and then opens it from the Downloads directory. I'm looking for something the opens directly from the file server share.

Permissions (2)

Permissions

scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 0.10.0
Updated Oct 18, 2025
Size 9.57KiB
First Seen Mar 26, 2026