New Chrome Extension lets you open files in Compatible PC & Mac Apps
As an Android user you probably also use the Google Chrome browser on your Mac or PC. With Chrome you get a lot of cross compatibility and access to the same goods and services that you do on your phone, tablet and Chromebook. A new extension has been announced and released by Google that is sure to make power users at least a little happier than before. The extension is called Application Launcher for Drive (by Google). Pretty long name that really isn’t all that catchy. What it does though could be quite useful.
The extension will add in an “open with” option for your files saved in Drive when you right click the file. This will allow you to open images, documents and videos in compatible apps on your PC or Mac. For instance, opening a photo directly from Drive with Photoshop or Illustrator. It also lists some suggested apps like Pixlr Editor for photos.
It isn’t as easy as just installing the extension though. You will need to do a few things. You will need to make sure you have the latest Google Drive app on your PC and all your files will need to be synced before hand. Your Drive client on your PC needs to be v1.18 or newer. Once you are set up and synced, you should be able to visit Drive on the Chrome browser and right-click on any file and see a list of options to open the file with. In my case, it took an install of the new Drive and a PC reboot before it gave me the access. I already had Drive installed so I didn’t have any sync time to really worry about.
You can grab the latest Google Drive app for your PC at tools.google.com and the new Application Launcher for Drive from the Chrome Web Store.
Source: Google Drive Blog via 9to5Google
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