diff --git a/toolkit/components/extensions/ext-downloads.js b/toolkit/components/extensions/ext-downloads.js
index 8bd2cab15d17..7b48840dc655 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/extensions/ext-downloads.js
+++ b/toolkit/components/extensions/ext-downloads.js
@@ -474,6 +474,23 @@ extensions.registerSchemaAPI("downloads", "downloads", (extension, context) => {
           });
       },
 
+      removeFile(id) {
+        return DownloadMap.lazyInit().then(() => {
+          let item;
+          try {
+            item = DownloadMap.fromId(id);
+          } catch (err) {
+            return Promise.reject({message: `Invalid download id ${id}`});
+          }
+          if (item.state !== "complete") {
+            return Promise.reject({message: `Cannot remove incomplete download id ${id}`});
+          }
+          return OS.File.remove(item.filename, {ignoreAbsent: false}).catch((err) => {
+            return Promise.reject({message: `Could not remove download id ${item.id} because the file doesn't exist`});
+          });
+        });
+      },
+
       search(query) {
         return queryHelper(query)
           .then(items => items.map(item => item.serialize()));
diff --git a/toolkit/components/extensions/schemas/downloads.json b/toolkit/components/extensions/schemas/downloads.json
index 20da3e1e77bc..2579c583d591 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/extensions/schemas/downloads.json
+++ b/toolkit/components/extensions/schemas/downloads.json
@@ -627,8 +627,8 @@
       },
       {
         "name": "removeFile",
+        "async": "callback",
         "type": "function",
-        "unsupported": true,
         "parameters": [
           {
             "name": "downloadId",
diff --git a/toolkit/components/extensions/test/mochitest/test_chrome_ext_downloads_misc.html b/toolkit/components/extensions/test/mochitest/test_chrome_ext_downloads_misc.html
index 92ca6836da1a..986476fadc95 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/extensions/test/mochitest/test_chrome_ext_downloads_misc.html
+++ b/toolkit/components/extensions/test/mochitest/test_chrome_ext_downloads_misc.html
@@ -465,6 +465,125 @@ add_task(function* test_pausecancel() {
   is(msg.result[0].exists, false, "download.exists is correct");
 });
 
+add_task(function* test_file_removal() {
+  let msg = yield runInExtension("download", {url: TXT_URL});
+  is(msg.status, "success", "download() succeeded");
+  const id = msg.result;
+
+  msg = yield runInExtension("waitForEvents", [
+    {type: "onCreated", data: {id, url: TXT_URL}},
+    {
+      type: "onChanged",
+      data: {
+        id,
+        state: {
+          previous: "in_progress",
+          current: "complete",
+        },
+      },
+    },
+  ]);
+
+  is(msg.status, "success", "got onCreated and onChanged events");
+
+  msg = yield runInExtension("removeFile", id);
+  is(msg.status, "success", "removeFile() succeeded");
+
+  msg = yield runInExtension("removeFile", id);
+  is(msg.status, "error", "removeFile() fails since the file was already removed.");
+  ok(/file doesn't exist/.test(msg.errmsg), "removeFile() failed on removed file.");
+
+  msg = yield runInExtension("removeFile", 1000);
+  ok(/Invalid download id/.test(msg.errmsg), "removeFile() failed due to non-existent id");
+});
+
+add_task(function* test_removal_of_incomplete_download() {
+  let msg = yield runInExtension("download", {url: INTERRUPTIBLE_URL});
+  is(msg.status, "success", "download() succeeded");
+  const id = msg.result;
+
+  let progressPromise = waitForProgress(INTERRUPTIBLE_URL, INT_PARTIAL_LEN);
+
+  msg = yield runInExtension("waitForEvents", [
+    {type: "onCreated", data: {id}},
+  ]);
+  is(msg.status, "success", "got created and changed events");
+
+  yield progressPromise;
+  info(`download reached ${INT_PARTIAL_LEN} bytes`);
+
+  msg = yield runInExtension("pause", id);
+  is(msg.status, "success", "pause() succeeded");
+
+  msg = yield runInExtension("waitForEvents", [
+    {
+      type: "onChanged",
+      data: {
+        id,
+        state: {
+          previous: "in_progress",
+          current: "interrupted",
+        },
+        paused: {
+          previous: false,
+          current: true,
+        },
+        canResume: {
+          previous: false,
+          current: true,
+        },
+      },
+    }]);
+  is(msg.status, "success", "got onChanged event corresponding to pause");
+
+  msg = yield runInExtension("removeFile", id);
+  is(msg.status, "error", "removeFile() on paused download failed");
+
+  ok(/Cannot remove incomplete download/.test(msg.errmsg), "removeFile() failed due to download being incomplete");
+
+  msg = yield runInExtension("resume", id);
+  is(msg.status, "success", "resume() succeeded");
+
+  msg = yield runInExtension("waitForEvents", [
+    {
+      type: "onChanged",
+      data: {
+        id,
+        state: {
+          previous: "interrupted",
+          current: "in_progress",
+        },
+        paused: {
+          previous: true,
+          current: false,
+        },
+        canResume: {
+          previous: true,
+          current: false,
+        },
+        error: {
+          previous: "USER_CANCELED",
+          current: null,
+        },
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      type: "onChanged",
+      data: {
+        id,
+        state: {
+          previous: "in_progress",
+          current: "complete",
+        },
+      },
+    },
+  ]);
+  is(msg.status, "success", "got onChanged events for resume and complete");
+
+  msg = yield runInExtension("removeFile", id);
+  is(msg.status, "success", "removeFile() succeeded following completion of resumed download.");
+});
+
 // Test erase().  We don't do elaborate testing of the query handling
 // since it uses the exact same engine as search() which is tested
 // more thoroughly in test_chrome_ext_downloads_search.html