While viewing a local file (ie. file://bla/bla.html) in composer I can edit it with composer in its place using "File/Edit Page" menu item. However this is not the case for documents of external apps. For example when I click on a link file://bla/bla.xls, first the file is copied to temp directory and then excel is lauched for the copied file. This makes editing of local docs impossible while using Mozilla as a shell. I think Mozilla should launch the application on the original file. Now you may wonder what my intention is... Well... I would like to use Mozilla as a shell and replacement for Windows/Internet Explorer. :) And it seems it is very likely. :)

hmm, that means that we should handle File:// URLS differently than all other Protocol Schemes. -> File Handling

Correction: The first "composer" should be "browser": The correct version is: While viewing a local file (ie. file://bla/bla.html) in __BROWSER__ I can edit it with composer in its place using "File/Edit Page" menu item. Sorry. :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73757 ***

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