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Remove: Content initiated top frame navigations to filesystem URLs

Category
Miscellaneous
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Removed (Chrome 68)
Intent stage
None

Summary

We intent to block web pages from loading filesystem: URLs in the top frame. filesystem: URLs are only supported by Chrome. They contain an inner URL which consists of the origin that created the filesystem URL. For example, a filesystem URL created by http://example.com looks like filesystem:http://www.example.com/temporary/file0. The appearance in the omnibox is confusing for users, and there is currently an undisclosed security bug for this. This change does NOT affect file:// URLs.

Standards & signals

Docs: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=811558

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