Access Local Files using a Google Chrome Extension

Question

I have asked a similar question to this previously

Communicate with Cash Drawer from Website

However the question was very vague and I now know what I requir

Answer 1

• If you have access to the machines where your product is deployed, you can use NaCL and start chrome with --no-sandbox command-line flag and use the following environment variable:

  set NACL_DANGEROUS_ENABLE_FILE_ACCESS=1

  More info on this blog

• The other option is NPAPI.