Access the Chrome Extension HTML file system

Question

I want to save the file on a local path.

I have a web link, for example (http://www.website.com/files/info.pdf) and a configuration setting that preserves the users' desired path (by default to load the directory, but they can change it.

Everything I read implies that this functionality exists, but I cannot figure out how to do it.

thanks

Answer 1

Chrome does not allow you to write directly to the file system. It provides an API that gives you access to an isolated environment, but does not allow you to access anything beyond that.

Firefox allows read / write access to the file system through XPCOM components , but users must allow access via: config (I don’t remember the key by hand, but I will look and edit if I find it again).