Index: /FCKeditor/trunk/_whatsnew.html
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--- /FCKeditor/trunk/_whatsnew.html	(revision 2214)
+++ /FCKeditor/trunk/_whatsnew.html	(revision 2215)
@@ -83,4 +83,6 @@
 		<li>[<a target="_blank" href="http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/1907">#1907</a>] Fixed sporadic
 			"FCKeditorAPI is not defined" errors in Firefox 3.</li>
+		<li>[<a target="_blank" href="http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/2356">#2356</a>] Fixed access denied
+			error in IE7 when FCKeditor is launched from local filesystem.</li>
 	</ul>
 	<p>
Index: /FCKeditor/trunk/editor/_source/internals/fcktools_ie.js
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--- /FCKeditor/trunk/editor/_source/internals/fcktools_ie.js	(revision 2214)
+++ /FCKeditor/trunk/editor/_source/internals/fcktools_ie.js	(revision 2215)
@@ -76,5 +76,6 @@
 		case 'XmlHttp' :
 			// Try the native XMLHttpRequest introduced with IE7.
-			try { return new XMLHttpRequest() ; } catch (e) {}
+			if ( document.location.protocol != 'file:' )
+				try { return new XMLHttpRequest() ; } catch (e) {}
 
 			aObjs = [ 'MSXML2.XmlHttp', 'Microsoft.XmlHttp' ] ;