I am developing an extension for the chrome browser. I use the KangoExtensions framework. The extension is written in JavaScript. I want to read the content of a file, which is located on the local filesystem. What is the easiest way to implement this?
Read content of a local file with chrome extension
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If you already know the file's path in the filesystem you just need to add a permission to
file://*in your manifest file and make a GET XMLHttpRequest to the urlfile://{filepath}.