If Chrome's metrics are to be believed, ~4% of cross-page navigations on Windows are to `file:` URLs. 4 is an amazingly large number of percent. ~2.5% on Mac and Linux, 0.1% on ChromeOS and Android. Amazingly high, all.
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Replying to @mikewest
Would you rather we open files with something else? ::)
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Replying to @JoeBeOne
I guess I would! Chrome's a bad file browser, and we keep finding security issues with local file's privileged access to local stuff. Removing that access seems valuable.
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Does that number include file->file transitions? Seems like http(s)->file would be the worrying transitions, in which case there might be some overcounting here.
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Chrome doesn't allow non-`file:` -> `file:` transitions. No navigation to `file:`, no embedding of `file:`.
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(unless you're an extension, even if you have no permissions, right?)
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