I have created a browser extension that allows to navigate through local images using arrow keys. To do that, it fetches the directory index and adds images, which are next to the currently opened one, to the DOM. E.g. when you open file:///path/to/image.png in Firefox, the content script of the add…

How to access local files from an extension?

freaktechnik (Martin Giger) January 31, 2022, 8:38am 6

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