HTTP redirection to files in firefox

[leml]

If you're using everything http server and firefox to browse and search files, you can enable automatic redirection of files.
Go to about:profiles and find root directory of your firefox profile.
Add the following in user.js in the root directory with the following:

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user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://localhost:8080");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");

Replace 8080 with whatever port your everything http server is running at.
Next use https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector and make the configuration

include pattern: ^https?:\/\/localhost:8080\/([^?\/][^?]*)$
Redirect to: file://$1

This will redirect every link that isn't /?search=something to its file url.

[leml]

Actually seeing weird quirks in the URL decode option when folders have special characters. Would be great if the server tried to redirect the file url itself.