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Getting security error while loading local file from background script , web extension?

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I am trying to get the blob of the last downloaded file using the background script of my Firefox Extension but I am getting the same error again and again i.e. Security Error: Content at moz-extension://03a985fd-d9c4-7e46-8ad1-0272b6c103af/_generated_background_page.html (url of my extension) may not load or link to file:///Users/amandeep/Downloads/demoform1(16).pdf (path of the last downloaded file). I have read many articles but none of them gives me any idea to do it. Please reply soon if anyone has a solution for it.

I am trying to get the blob of the last downloaded file using the background script of my Firefox Extension but I am getting the same error again and again i.e. Security Error: Content at moz-extension://03a985fd-d9c4-7e46-8ad1-0272b6c103af/_generated_background_page.html (url of my extension) may not load or link to file:///Users/amandeep/Downloads/demoform1(16).pdf (path of the last downloaded file). I have read many articles but none of them gives me any idea to do it. Please reply soon if anyone has a solution for it.

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Did you contact the extension maker about it? Extension issues aren't a FF end user help from problem.

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Try to ask advice at the Addons forum if this is your own extension.