Re (2): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.
Eduardo,
From: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:32:35 -0300
> Probably because ~ is not a magical token in the Linux kernel. Firefox
> is just trying to open a file "/~/Category2.html", a file in a
> directory literally called "~" under root.
>
> Several programs (notably the shell) take "~" to mean the user's home
> directly, and convert that to the actual file path before opening it.
I hadn't thought about that properly.
Thanks, ... Peter E.
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