Chrome and Google Drive you can open the file with local applications

A new extension dedicated to Google Chrome allows you to open files managed by Google Drive also using locally installed applications on your PC. The cloud storage services are becoming increasingly popular, and today offer a wide flexibility of use: they are suitable for use on smartphones and tablets, or provide an alternative solution as a last back-up.

These services are often seen as an opportunity to retain users to the web application and or similar functionality, offering users a wide choice of integrated options is reasonable to assume that these people can get used to specific services by continuing to use them in time.

For example, in the case of OneDrive that allows the creation and editing of files in Office formats using the free web application; the same approach is also offered by Google but just few hours ago announced an interesting new feature in contrast with what has just been described.

The developers of Mountain View have developed an extension to install on Chrome that allows you to open files managed by Google Drive using applications installed on your system. The mode of access to this new option is very simple just install the extension and open the Chrome browser with Google Drive: Selecting a file and clicking with the right mouse button will show the option to Open With, and then select through which the application required.

The extension is already available on the store component of Chrome, and is required as a prerequisite to use the latest version of Google Drive on your PC and can be retrieved by accessing the browser to Google Drive and then select the Download option in the Settings menu. All details can be found at this address.