Chrome and --allow-file-access-from-files

Question

I have a jquery/AJAX sign in page that works perfectly in all browsers except Chrome. It seems I have bumped into an issue in Chrome which is covered at Problems with jQuery ge

Answer 1

Don't use that flag. You're opening your machine or your users machines to attacks. Instead run a local server. It's as easy as opening a shell/terminal/commandline and typing

cd path/to/files
python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Then pointing your browser to

http://localhost:8000

If you find it's too slow consider this solution