diff --git a/Sources/Panels/BrowserPanel.swift b/Sources/Panels/BrowserPanel.swift
index 8dc311ff3152..9e050efd5b76 100644
--- a/Sources/Panels/BrowserPanel.swift
+++ b/Sources/Panels/BrowserPanel.swift
@@ -4555,6 +4555,11 @@ private func browserBareHostCandidate(_ lowercasedInput: String) -> String {
 func resolveBrowserNavigableURL(_ input: String) -> URL? {
     let trimmed = input.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
     guard !trimmed.isEmpty else { return nil }
+
+    if trimmed.hasPrefix("/") {
+        return URL(fileURLWithPath: trimmed)
+    }
+
     guard !trimmed.contains(" ") else { return nil }
 
     // Check localhost/loopback before generic URL parsing because
diff --git a/cmuxTests/GhosttyConfigTests.swift b/cmuxTests/GhosttyConfigTests.swift
index 67e8f6256599..abdd83efb542 100644
--- a/cmuxTests/GhosttyConfigTests.swift
+++ b/cmuxTests/GhosttyConfigTests.swift
@@ -1207,6 +1207,22 @@ final class BrowserNewTabNavigationSeedTests: XCTestCase {
     }
 }
 
+final class BrowserNavigableURLResolverTests: XCTestCase {
+    func testAbsoluteFilePathResolvesToFileURL() throws {
+        let url = try XCTUnwrap(resolveBrowserNavigableURL("/Users/example/Desktop/report.html"))
+
+        XCTAssertTrue(url.isFileURL)
+        XCTAssertEqual(url.path, "/Users/example/Desktop/report.html")
+    }
+
+    func testAbsoluteFilePathWithSpacesResolvesToFileURL() throws {
+        let url = try XCTUnwrap(resolveBrowserNavigableURL("/Users/example/Desktop/disk cleanup report.html"))
+
+        XCTAssertTrue(url.isFileURL)
+        XCTAssertEqual(url.path, "/Users/example/Desktop/disk cleanup report.html")
+    }
+}
+
 @MainActor
 final class BrowserPanelRemoteStoreTests: XCTestCase {
     func testRemoteWorkspacePanelsShareWorkspaceScopedWebsiteDataStore() {