FILEfox is a local file access proxy for JavaScript-based web applications running on Firefox. It gives these applications a civilized way to request manual user permission to load specific local files for local analysis, in a fashion similar to the HTML form file upload, but the data does not have to be uploaded to the web server. This eliminates the age-old requirement that the user data resides on remote server(s), enabling better privacy, and further opening the door to desktop computing via web applications.
