Opening file in browser

Hi guys

I'm a novice when it comes to asp.net or all things web developing really. But i managed to create a web page that look into a database and then publishes a link to either a .doc, .pdf, etc

Html link simply calls something like file://myserver/docs/example.doc and once you click on the link it open the document. This works fine in IE8 and IE9 but for some reason when clicking on the link within Chrome or Firefox nothing happens!

does anyone know how to get this to work?

A copy of the code is below

<html>
<head runat="server">
    <title>Doc Index</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mystyle.css" />
</head>

<body>
<img src="/Docindex/name.PNG" width="100" height="50" />
<br><br><br>
<h1 style="text-align:center;"><u>Document Index</u></h1>

    <form id="form1" runat="server">
	<asp:AccessDataSource 
            ID="AccessDataSource1" runat="server" DataFile="G:\Builds\goldbuild.mdb" 
            SelectCommand="SELECT [CustomerID], [LongName] FROM [Customer] ORDER BY [LongName]">
        </asp:AccessDataSource>

        <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Font-Bold="True" Font-Names="Arial" 
            style="margin-left: 25%" Font-Size="Small" Text="Customers:"></asp:Label>
        <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList1" runat="server" Height="36px" 
            style="margin-left: 2px" Width="350px" AutoPostBack="True" 
            DataSourceID="AccessDataSource1" DataTextField="LongName" 
            DataValueField="CustomerID">
        </asp:DropDownList>
    </p>
    <p>
        <asp:AccessDataSource ID="AccessDataSource2" runat="server" 
            DataFile="G:\Builds\goldbuild.mdb" 
            SelectCommand="SELECT [DocName], [FileName], [CustomerID] FROM [Documents] WHERE ([CustomerID] = ?)">
            <SelectParameters>
                <asp:ControlParameter ControlID="DropDownList1" Name="CustomerID" 
                    PropertyName="SelectedValue" Type="String" />
            </SelectParameters>
        </asp:AccessDataSource>
    </p>
	<div align="center">
          <asp:DataList ID="DataList1" runat="server" 
            BorderColor="Black" BorderStyle="Double" BorderWidth="5px" CellPadding="0" 
            DataKeyField="DocName" DataSourceID="AccessDataSource2" ForeColor="Black" 
            GridLines="Horizontal" style="margin-left: 0%" Width="60%">   
            <ItemTemplate>
	</div>
	<div align="left">
                <asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink1" runat="server"
                    NavigateUrl='<%# Eval("FileName") %>' Text='<%# Eval("DocName") %>' Font-Size="Small" style="margin-left: 2%"></asp:HyperLink>
                <br />
                <br />
            </ItemTemplate>
            <SelectedItemStyle BackColor="#CC3333" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" />
        </asp:DataList>
	</div>

    </p>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Opening file in browser

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