Not allowed to load local resource: while accessing url in content script

Question

I am trying to read in a local file in my content script. I am uploading a local file using file dialog at the extension popup and then sending the url to content script as

Answer 1

This looks like a Chrome bug, see: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=295829 - I'm trying to figure out a way to work around it too but haven't had any luck yet...