Local file support

[Dimas-sc]

Describe the bug

Is it possible to load local files (example: file:///C:/WL12-ECAP/ECAP%20P416.html) in Internet Explorer with ieview-we? I tried this type of forceielist patterns but it doesn't work:
"file:///"
file:///
file:///C:/WL12-ECAP/*
file:///C:/WL12-ECAP/ECAP%20P416.html
file://///C:/WL12-ECAP/ECAP%20P416.html

To Reproduce

Double click to the file C:\WL12-ECAP\ECAP P416.html

Expected behavior

File is opened in IE

Your Environment

- Firefox version: 128.5 ESR
- IE View WE Firefox addon version: 1.6.4

Your Configuration

- Force IE list:
- Sites opened by self:

Your debug log

No response

Additional context

No response

[piroor]

Currently IE View WE only accepts patterns with http or https URLs. The initialization process fails to convert file: URLs to regex patterns (

ieview-we/background.js

Line 808 in 6ca63e9

function matchPatternToRegExp(pattern) {

).

[piroor]

We have no plan to update IE View WE because we host other superset extensions BrowserSelector and ThinBridge. Indeed the master branch of this project is already replaced with implementations copied from ThinBridge for Manifest V3. They cover most motivations of this extension on company use so we recommend you to switch to them.

[Dimas-sc]

Thanks for answering. Both of these two options have support for local file link "redirection" like I'm trying to do? Which of these two options is a more direct "update" from IEView? I like the IEView simplicity and Firefox integration, and it seems that this other apps are a standalone app itself, is it possible?