<![CDATA[Allow file access from files]]>In previous versions used to be a configuration / flag to allow file access from files. After it went away, people suggested to use the command line parameter --allow-file-access-from-files like with Chromium.

Neither of the options seems to work for me. How can I enable file access?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/26117/allow-file-access-from-filesRSS for NodeSun, 16 Aug 2026 02:00:18 GMTWed, 11 Apr 2018 17:20:58 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Allow file access from files on Wed, 18 Apr 2018 07:06:56 GMT]]>Actually, I think, I will not undergo the effort to find out what goes wrong, when there is only a command line switch to toggle the behaviour. I rather stick to Firefox for development then. Hopefully it gets integrated in the future again.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/144621https://forums.opera.com/post/144621Wed, 18 Apr 2018 07:06:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Allow file access from files on Wed, 18 Apr 2018 03:49:26 GMT]]>@vince42 said in Allow file access from files:

Try uninstalling and reinstalling Opera" ?

🙂 You can test in a standalone installation instead. Download the Opera installer, launch it, click "options", set "install path" to a folder on your desktop, set "install for" to "standalone installation" and install. See how it works in that Opera. If it works fine, then you know something is not quite right with your regular install/profile.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/144618https://forums.opera.com/post/144618Wed, 18 Apr 2018 03:49:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Allow file access from files on Tue, 17 Apr 2018 21:51:18 GMT]]>Windows 10 Pro 64 bit, Opera 52.0.2871.40, both files on my desktop, invoked as you suggested: blank screen.

Let me guess: "Try uninstalling and reinstalling Opera" ? 🙂

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/144599https://forums.opera.com/post/144599Tue, 17 Apr 2018 21:51:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Allow file access from files on Fri, 13 Apr 2018 08:40:35 GMT]]>Seems to be working fine for me on Windows 10 Pro + opera 52.0.2871.64 x64 where both files are on my desktop.

launcher.exe --allow-file-access-from-files

cdcatalog.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="cdcatalog.xsl"?>
<catalog>
  <cd>
    <title>Empire Burlesque</title>
    <artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
    <country>USA</country>
    <company>Columbia</company>
    <price>10.90</price>
    <year>1985</year>
  </cd>
  <cd>
    <title>Hide your heart</title>
    <artist>Bonnie Tyler</artist>
    <country>UK</country>
    <company>CBS Records</company>
    <price>9.90</price>
    <year>1988</year>
  </cd>
 </catalog>

cdcatalog.xsl

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:transform version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html> 
<body>
  <h2>My CD Collection</h2>
  <table border="1">
    <tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
      <th style="text-align:left">Title</th>
      <th style="text-align:left">Artist</th>
    </tr>
    <xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd">
    <tr>
      <td><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td>
      <td><xsl:value-of select="artist"/></td>
    </tr>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>
]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/144321https://forums.opera.com/post/144321Fri, 13 Apr 2018 08:40:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Allow file access from files on Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:29:04 GMT]]>The test case is as follows: I have a XML file with a transformation element specifying a XSL file. In Opera the screen stays blank, in Firefox the XML is rendered as expected. From my research I could exclude that there are other reasons responsible than the disallowance of local file access.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/144284https://forums.opera.com/post/144284Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:29:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Allow file access from files on Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:13:28 GMT]]>Could you provide a test case? You using XHR to read file file? Is the file is the same directory (or subdirectory) as the HTML file?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/144283https://forums.opera.com/post/144283Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:13:28 GMT