🏠 New in High Baseline Support: Origin private file system
September 27, 2025
The navigator.storage.getDirectory() method returns a FileSystemDirectoryHandle that is restricted to a specific origin and invisible to the user’s actual file system for faster file-based applications, such as SQLite databases.
Source features
api.FileSystemDirectoryHandle[mdn]api.FileSystemDirectoryHandle.entries[mdn]api.FileSystemDirectoryHandle.getDirectoryHandle[mdn]api.FileSystemDirectoryHandle.getFileHandle[mdn]api.FileSystemDirectoryHandle.keys[mdn]api.FileSystemDirectoryHandle.removeEntry[mdn]api.FileSystemDirectoryHandle.resolve[mdn]api.FileSystemDirectoryHandle.values[mdn]api.FileSystemFileHandle[mdn]api.FileSystemFileHandle.getFile[mdn]api.FileSystemHandle[mdn]api.FileSystemHandle.isSameEntry[mdn]api.FileSystemHandle.kind[mdn]api.FileSystemHandle.name[mdn]api.StorageManager.getDirectory[mdn]api.FileSystemFileHandle.createSyncAccessHandle[mdn]api.FileSystemSyncAccessHandle[mdn]api.FileSystemSyncAccessHandle.close[mdn]api.FileSystemSyncAccessHandle.flush[mdn]api.FileSystemSyncAccessHandle.getSize[mdn]api.FileSystemSyncAccessHandle.read[mdn]api.FileSystemSyncAccessHandle.truncate[mdn]api.FileSystemSyncAccessHandle.write[mdn]api.FileSystemSyncAccessHandle.close.sync_version[mdn]api.FileSystemSyncAccessHandle.flush.sync_version[mdn]api.FileSystemSyncAccessHandle.getSize.sync_version[mdn]api.FileSystemSyncAccessHandle.truncate.sync_version[mdn]