Most web browsers do not allow this anymore as it's a security risk. Most browsers will disable this functionality unless they are explicitly allowed. As such most applications drop any sort of functionality for it as well.
You can find a KB on this here – https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/can-t-link-to-local-files-from-within-jira-216958260.html
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