Local links ( in browsers ) on *nix systems

Question

On Windows I can access files directly from the browser ( or at least I have it configured currently, forget if it was native like this ) with the file:// protocol, so I can access files from say the C drive.

I'm wondering what the equivalent would be to accessing my files from the browser, if at all possible on a *nix system such as Debian.

Answer 1

Try file:///.

example:

file:///home/username/

of course, replacing username with your username.