firefox open local link to directory with explorer

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Published on 2009-11-26T16:23:41Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 4:03 UTC
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On a Website for our internal use i show links to local files and folders. the links are like this:

href="file://C:/example/"
href="file://C:/example/test.odt"

The Problem is now that the link to the directory does open in firefox itself with a useless directory listing. Useless because you can just see the files or open them but not copy, insert, delete... The link to the file work normal and the file is opend by OpenOffice. By changing the configuration of firefox and setting the following key to false I can open the directory in with explorer.exe but for the file I have to choose the right application.

network.protocol-handler.expose.file

Does someone know a way to get both to work like i want? Means that the Directory is shown by explorer.exe and all files are opened by the right application. This can be by configuring Firefox or windows, changing the links, or even by writing a small program which opens all the file protocol correctly and will be used as protocol handler for the file protocol in firefox.

Thanks Raffael

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