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i am developing a chrome extension for monitoring the files accessed or directories accessed by chrome i.e

while uploading file to google Drive you browse directories which file to upload

. In other words a directory monitoring extension. Further feature can be added.

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  1. This is security issue which i am trying to solve.i searched but Google did not help me that much.

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Ahmed Mujtaba
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  • Extensions can't do that. You can write an external utility that runs in the OS and monitors the files. Your extension can communicate with that utility via nativeMessaging API. – wOxxOm Sep 10 '18 at 04:10
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    For more information on `nativeMessaging` refer this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25169384/what-is-native-messaging-between-applications-and-how-does-it-work – Aefits Sep 10 '18 at 05:31

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