Still, that doesn’t mean the Internet can’t play more and more of a role to make these tools even more useful. The Save to Google Drive Chrome extension helps you save web content or browser screenshots to your Google Drive. It acknowledges that software for advanced image and video editing, accounting, 3D animation, design, and so on cannot be replaced by Web apps just yet. The company wants its browser, and any apps designed for it, to blend together. No, Google is pushing the limits much further. The company isn’t stopping at Chrome OS, its browser-as-an-operating-system.

The release is part of Google’s bigger strategy of merging two worlds: the Web and the desktop. After you’re done making your edits, the changes are saved back to Google Drive, which in turn will sync them across all your devices and other collaborators. The company doesn’t mention Microsoft Office, of course, given its own Docs, Sheets, and Slides apps, but Word, Excel, and PowerPoint should work with this as well. Examples Google gives include opening a PDF file with Adobe Reader or a.

You can take a look at the code here capture_gallery_downloader.js the code that does that is: var url = window.webkitURL || window.URL || window.mozURL || window.msURL Ī.download = 'MyHangouts-MomentCapture.jpg' Ī.href = url.createObjectURL(dataURIToBlob(data.active, 'jpg')) Ī.textContent = 'Click here to download!' Ī.dataset.downloadurl =. Listing of Chrome Extensions To delete the browser extension, click the Remove button. Each extension shows the icon, name, brief description, Details button, Remove button, and status toggle. Chrome will display your extensions in a nice grid. Another way to do what you need is simply send a request to an external website via XHR POST and then another GET request to retrieve the file back which will appear as a save file dialog.įor example, for my browser extension My Hangouts I created a utility to download a photo from HTML5 Canvas directly to disk. In Chrome’s address bar, type chrome://extensions. That is the only way to download files to disk and it is limited. You can use HTML5 FileSystem features to write to disk using the Download API. Google introduces an official Chrome extension to save any image file on a webpage to be saved to Google Drive along with adding options to add comments and.

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