It was because of ‘security’, which was never explained. And it doesn’t make much sense when other browsers can and do alow it. I’ll see if I can dig up some historical links if I remember tomorrow.

Last time I checked,there was still no acknowledgement of it and appeared to be no intention of ever addressing it. The fact that they’re now telling people to run a webserver suggests that nothing has changed ☹️

Yeah, nah. I’ve already got enough unnecessary apps and services with Android.

Thanks for the workaround, though.

Firefox for Android removing the ability to open local html files killed it for me. Currently on Vivaldi.