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diff --git a/doc/forum/Making_Firefox_not_dereference_symlinks_on_open.mdwn b/doc/forum/Making_Firefox_not_dereference_symlinks_on_open.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5680cbd02 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Making_Firefox_not_dereference_symlinks_on_open.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Firefox has the nasty habit that it will force-dereference symlinks when locally opening files (i. e., opening an annexed document will cause it to be opened in .git/annex/objects/…). Since this will break relative links within HTML files, this would make Firefox pretty useless when working with a git annex containing HTML files. (Apparently this behavior is [desired](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=803999) upstream and might not be fixed.) + +Seems I’m not the only one who would like to work with annexed HTML files, though. On the [Debian bugtracker](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=691099), another user shared a handy shim which can be used in LD_PRELOAD and which will force Firefox to open symlinks in-place. Thought I’d share this here in case it’s of use to anyone. |