SubscribeGoogle toolbar for Firefox integrates Docs with desktop
Posted by stuart on December 14th 2006
A new beta version of Google’s toolbar for the Firefox browser has brought integration of Google’s Docs & Spreadsheets service to your desktop. What this means is that you can double-click on an Excel or Word document and have it open directly in your Google Docs site. In my brief testing the service was far from perfect, and didn’t really work at all actually. I could only open documents that had already been uploaded and even then only after I had re-entered my password. Also, any online changes made to the documents are not reflected in the local copy of that document. But it’s still interesting to see the potential this has for the future.
These are the options as displayed in the toolbar settings:
The error message received when attempting to open a document that hadn’t previously been uploaded:
Once you’ve set the options above, the relevant icons change in Windows Explorer to look like this:
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