Allow loading of image from file dynamically.

[chris-erickson]

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I use http://brettterpstra.com/2011/09/05/geeklets-weather-and-forecast/ which replaces an image on my filesystem periodically to correlate with the forecast. It would be ideal to use this as my new tab image. The current behavior is to cache the image (it never changes).

[ibillingsley]

I was planning to change this anyway because the current caching (using local storage) is limited in size and is slower than reading from the file system.

[chris-erickson]

Excellent. Love this.

[bezirg]

Any progress in this front? I think it still caches both the local files and the URLs.

[ibillingsley]

The browser does not really have access to the file system. It would sort of be possible in Chrome, but the file will have to be located somewhere like "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\File System\123\p\00\00000000" (the first number at least will be different on every system). You would have to first select a local image in the extension, then find out where it saved the copy to in order to replace it.