<p>It's rather <code>g_path_skip_root</code> in <a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/master/src/build.c#L1243">https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/master/src/build.c#L1243</a> which removes <code>c:</code> (or <code>d:</code>) from the URI passed to the browser.<br>
I justed on Windows with Firefox that passing the path root will work and it does. So we could just remove <code>g_path_skip_root</code> on Windows (on non-Windows systems it should be OK) to resolve this issue.<br>
Maybe this introduces other issues as side effects of this change, so it needs some testing. Hence, here are some binaries with this change (built from GIT master, be careful):<br>
Geany: <a href="https://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-1.32nightly20171015_setup.exe">https://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-1.32nightly20171015_setup.exe</a><br>
Plugins: <a href="https://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-plugins-1.32nightly20171015_setup.exe">https://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-plugins-1.32nightly20171015_setup.exe</a></p>

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