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Chrome extension opens PDFs and PowerPoint presentations with Google Docs
Do you hate the way that Google Chrome handles PDFs? Are you tired of downloading them? Well, now there's an official Chrome extension from Google that lets you view all PDFs and PowerPoint files in Google Docs by default. Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer seems to work well for the most part, but the ability to save a PDF to your Google Docs account would be a useful addition.It worked fine for me on the latest stable version of Chrome Mac, but some commenters have reported problems with the extension on their Macs. Also, it seems to have trouble with PDFs from password-protected sites -- even when you're logged in -- but that's a minor quibble.
If you're not running Chrome, I previously covered a userscript that does basically the same thing, so you can plug that into Greasemonkey in Firefox or GreaseKit in Safari.
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Subscribe to comments216Jun 4th 2010 9:30AM
Umm wasn't this one of the original extensions that launched with the Chrome Extensions Gallery? Lol not to sound like an a-hole, but I mean wow this one is pretty old.
Still useful tho.
Leo BenvenisteJun 4th 2010 9:39AM
That's what I was thinking, this extension along the gmail checker and the rss was in the original extensions lineup, still, it's a very usefull one
ChristopherJun 4th 2010 12:49PM
you should really check your information you can already save pdfs to google docs from the google pdf viewer
WillJun 7th 2010 10:28AM
As has been pointed out, this extension is far from new.
What's even worse, is that you apparently didn't use this extension for very long, because it's a huge pile of crap. Maybe it's changed recently (I doubt it), but this extension almost never works correctly.