<p>Weird.<br>
We explicitly strip the <code>file://</code> prefix from the URL when opening URLs on Windows.<br>
I don't remember why we did this. Though even when keeping the prefix, the URL opens but the anchor is stripped and ignored.</p>
<p>I'll debug this further at the weekend.</p>

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