Hola!

Instead of clicking on a bookmark link in Firefox for Mac OS X I mistakely dragged my external hard drive to the Firefox's window; accidental snafu. Up came my directory of my hard drive within the browser, including the hidden "invisible" files. Clicking on movies showed them embedded into the browser, and folders are links. Just did it recently so I haven't delved into this too much yet. I'm interested enough to ask what is the benefit to users of such capability? Safari doesn't do this (just tried).

Any clue? :o

Last edited: Friday, January 28, 2005 at 10:02:11 PM

You might be right re: Safari... It's definitely not drag n' drop tho if it does currently do it (tried).. Thanks for the response!

Netscape has been able to do that since it's inception, and Firefox has inherited from there I imagine. I'm fairly sure that Netscape inherited it from Mosaic. I imagine that Mosaic had it because after you have made the browser able to display the file listings from Gopher and FTP sites, it really isn't that hard to make it list the contents of the HD...

Yeah, Safari doesn't display folders, it just open up the Finder. I tried it with IE and Netscape and they both worked.
(By the way, for all you PC users who are wondering what the hay we're talking about...)

Ha, you think IE is the equivalent of Safari!



That's too funny!
Safari is 3x faster than IE, has a built in pop-up blocker, and look at this:

Last edited: Saturday, January 29, 2005 at 6:03:00 PM