file:// -urls
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Stefan Berg
Hi, nothing happens in the web-client (edge/chrome - no extensions installed) when I open a file://xxx -url. Even though the browser do handle it if I paste the url in a new tab. It do works very well in the desktop client (windows) though :-)
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Rustem Mussabekov
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Unfortunately, this is a browser limitation, and there’s no way to bypass it.
RokeJulianLockhart
Rustem Mussabekov, what's the limitation? I'll happily request a change to the API at Mozilla's Bugzilla.
Rustem Mussabekov
RokeJulianLockhart This disabled in all browser for security reasons
RokeJulianLockhart
Rustem Mussabekov, can you link to the relevant MDN docs?
Rustem Mussabekov
RokeJulianLockhart https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/153706/why-local-links-are-disabled-by-default-in-modern-browsers
Not found MDN, but there plenty of bugzilla links
Rustem Mussabekov
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Add Local Folder/File links
BlueStar (Blue)
Idea is where we have note-collection-tags-url inputs for a bookmark, we have a new 'Location'
Here we can set this to a local folder or file on our device, have a alt way to open a bookmark that directs to this local location
(shift click for pc and or a new button for example)
Many bookmarks i have are tutorials on youtube and many of them have download links to resource files. If i can link the bookmark to the folder i have these files saved to i just have to use the alt click to open the folder to them. The bookmark can take me to the tutorial video and the local stored files easily. If the location is to your pc and you try to access it on a phone then it can just say not available
Another use for this 'location' is if we saved a whole webpage as a file we could link the location to this file. So now we can normal click for the live version or alt click for the archived version
By adding a file/folder input we can setup raindrop to be a visual file browser of sorts
Rustem Mussabekov
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Add URL to file, file to URL
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M_R
I have the need to save PDF files alongside my bookmarks (for example to save the printed PDF paywalled content).
The same goes for PDFs and content where I want to be able to save a URL in a dedicated field which is outside the comments field.
Why is this not possible? This seems like an artifical limitation.
Is there any way at the moment in raindrop to save attachments with URLs or URLs with custom files?
Rustem Mussabekov
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Allow file:/// links to be bookmarked (local file and folder bookmark links) in the browser
dev fric
I have files on my local files and folders on local file system that I access via my browser
If I open the following links in my Firefox browser
file:///C:/mydirectory/mysubdir/
or
file:///C:/mydirectory/mysubdir/book.pdf
Then click The Raindrop bookmark extension it allows me to add the bookmark but not save it
When I save I get this error so the bookmark is never added
Rustem Mussabekov
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Links to Personal Computer Folder / Network
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Ingo Rost
I Will get all my links in your tool, but i cannot implement the Link "file://domain-internal.com/" If i get it in the browser direct it would be open. Did i get it in Raindrop as link, it didnt work. So it dont be a big Problem !!!
Rustem Mussabekov
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Bookmarking files saved on PC/ Onedrive/Google drive etcetc to bookmark
Krishna Gurram
Allowing to bookmark the files saved on local PC, Onedrive etc. with their location paths facilitating their tagging and descriptions will be an added convenience in organising all the stuff using Raindrop.io
Canny AI
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Links to Local apps/Software
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Karthik prabhu
Be able to link files and apps stored locally
- files by browsing as we already can upload files
- links to open app or executable files stored locally using either their absolute path or browse file explorer and open them.
dev fric
If you drag a folder in your bookmark it will open it. For me does with Firefox.
However If you click the raindrop icon to save the bookmark, it gives error on save
`${3rd}='Beedell'; ${1st}='Roke'`{.PS1}
I'm unable to save them via the extension, because "Raindrop validation failed: link: url is invalid, domain: Path
domain
is required." appears, so they are probably unsupported currently. I consider this to be a feature-request as much as it is a bug-report, but really, this should be a feature request for arbitrary schemes/protocols rather than for solely file://-delimited URIs.