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cjsmall
Mar 30, 2021, 6:30:13 PM3/30/21
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Firefox 87 on Xubuntu 20.04
I'm not sure if this is a Firefox problem or not, but often when there is an embedded URL in a saved email attachment or in a link in a LibreOffice document or spreadsheet, when trying to access the link, Firefox comes up with the link preceded by "file:///<path to home>" -- in other words, the path to my home directory.
Example: In a LibreOffice spreadsheet I create a link to:
https://duckduckgo.com/
When I Ctrl-Click on the link, Firefox comes up with this as the URL:
file:///u/jeff/https://duckduckgo.com/
So, any idea why the file part is being inserted, and more importantly, any idea as to how to stop this?
Thanks.
I'm not sure if this is a Firefox problem or not, but often when there is an embedded URL in a saved email attachment or in a link in a LibreOffice document or spreadsheet, when trying to access the link, Firefox comes up with the link preceded by "file:///<path to home>" -- in other words, the path to my home directory.
Example: In a LibreOffice spreadsheet I create a link to:
https://duckduckgo.com/
When I Ctrl-Click on the link, Firefox comes up with this as the URL:
file:///u/jeff/https://duckduckgo.com/
So, any idea why the file part is being inserted, and more importantly, any idea as to how to stop this?
Thanks.
Ralph Fox
Apr 2, 2021, 11:09:32 AM4/2/21
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I do not see that here. When I do this here, Firefox opens the web site with
this URL:
https://duckduckgo.com/
I created the link In a LibreOffice spreadsheet by pasting
https://duckduckgo.com/
as plain text into an empty cell.
I would wonder what steps you were following to create the link.
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Kind regards
Ralph
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