diff --git a/browser/modules/E10SUtils.jsm b/browser/modules/E10SUtils.jsm
index e2a65984b303..b9f3867b8ffe 100644
--- a/browser/modules/E10SUtils.jsm
+++ b/browser/modules/E10SUtils.jsm
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ XPCOMUtils.defineLazyPreferenceGetter(this, "useRemoteWebExtensions",
                                       "extensions.webextensions.remote", false);
 XPCOMUtils.defineLazyPreferenceGetter(this, "useSeparateFileUriProcess",
                                       "browser.tabs.remote.separateFileUriProcess", false);
+XPCOMUtils.defineLazyPreferenceGetter(this, "allowLinkedWebInFileUriProcess",
+                                      "browser.tabs.remote.allowLinkedWebInFileUriProcess", false);
 XPCOMUtils.defineLazyModuleGetter(this, "Utils",
                                   "resource://gre/modules/sessionstore/Utils.jsm");
 XPCOMUtils.defineLazyModuleGetter(this, "console",
@@ -45,8 +47,20 @@ const LARGE_ALLOCATION_REMOTE_TYPE = "webLargeAllocation";
 const DEFAULT_REMOTE_TYPE = WEB_REMOTE_TYPE;
 
 function validatedWebRemoteType(aPreferredRemoteType) {
-  return aPreferredRemoteType && aPreferredRemoteType.startsWith(WEB_REMOTE_TYPE)
-         ? aPreferredRemoteType : WEB_REMOTE_TYPE;
+  if (!aPreferredRemoteType) {
+    return WEB_REMOTE_TYPE;
+  }
+
+  if (aPreferredRemoteType.startsWith(WEB_REMOTE_TYPE)) {
+    return aPreferredRemoteType;
+  }
+
+  if (allowLinkedWebInFileUriProcess &&
+      aPreferredRemoteType == FILE_REMOTE_TYPE) {
+    return aPreferredRemoteType;
+  }
+
+  return WEB_REMOTE_TYPE;
 }
 
 this.E10SUtils = {
diff --git a/modules/libpref/init/all.js b/modules/libpref/init/all.js
index 1349ad541012..af15f97816b8 100644
--- a/modules/libpref/init/all.js
+++ b/modules/libpref/init/all.js
@@ -2930,6 +2930,13 @@ pref("browser.tabs.remote.separateFileUriProcess", true);
 pref("browser.tabs.remote.separateFileUriProcess", false);
 #endif
 
+// Pref that enables top level web content pages that are opened from file://
+// URI pages to run in the file content process.
+// This has been added in case breaking any window references between these
+// sorts of pages, which we have to do when we run them in the normal web
+// content process, causes compatibility issues.
+pref("browser.tabs.remote.allowLinkedWebInFileUriProcess", false);
+
 // Enable caching of Moz2D Path objects for SVG geometry elements
 pref("svg.path-caching.enabled", true);