Hi everyone. I’m a novice developer with web extensions. I used web-ext for a native-messaging web extension with Python, developed on Ubuntu, which I use with Firefox. I use it to scan web pages and capture the contents of certain fields. The scan result is sent to the python script which proce…

Python "native-messaging" web extensions on mac unable to read / write files on Downloads folder

dotproto (Simeon Vincent) April 16, 2024, 10:52pm 2

This sounds like a macOS permissions issue. Check out this Apple support article on how to Control access to files and folders on Mac.

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