tear this logic apart a bit to make it easier to comprehend. previously
it was trying to be too smart for its own good.

the previous code would url.todisplaystring (this returns a url if the
input was an url - e.g. file:///foo) but then used that with
fromLocalFile (which prepends file:/) ultimately ending up with
file:file://foo.

instead let's manipulate the path proper-like. append to the path(),
then simply pass along the url, no localfile conversion necessary at all

BUG: 428373