How do I make a file:// hyperlink that works in both IE and Firefox?

Question

In my documentation web pages, I often need to provide links to locations, files and applications (.xbap) stored on the intranet.

In IE, this works fine with URLs f

Answer 1

In case someone else finds this topic while using localhost in the file URIs - Internet Explorer acts completely different if the host name is localhost or 127.0.0.1 - if you use the actual hostname, it works fine (from trusted sites/intranet zone).

Another big difference between IE and FF - IE is fine with uris like file://server/share/file.txt but FF requires additional slashes file:////server/share/file.txt.