Google Drive is the Google cloud service that all those who have registered a Google or Gmail account can use, for free, to save files online (in a space of 5GB) and synchronize data between multiple Windows computers, Macs and Android phones. Google Drive is also the new name for Google Docs, web applications similar to Office programs for writing spreadsheets, presentations and text.
A new extension for the Chrome browser, developed directly by Google for G-Drive, allows you to download files from the internet directly to the Google drive or to save complete web pages, so that you can also read them later, to preserve them over time or to create screenshots quickly.
The " save on Google Drive " extension, after installation, adds a new button on the bar at the top right of Chrome that you only need to press to save the web page you are looking at that moment.
The page can be found among your files in drive.google.com/
The web page is saved in its entirety (not just the visible part) as a PNG image file in its file archive.
However, this can be changed and, by right-clicking on the Google Drive button in Chrome, you can access the options menu .
Among the options of the G-Drive extension you can choose to save a web page as an image of the visible part only, or you can choose to save a web page as an html source file, as an mht archive or as a Google document.
If you right- click on the link to download a file, you can choose to download it directly to your Google cloud space and not to your computer.
This is a great advantage to quickly save files from the internet so that they are always available from other computers or mobile phones.
It thus becomes a phenomenal way to keep files without having to remember where they were downloaded from and to always have them available.
You can also right click on a photo or image and save it directly in your account.
All types of files found on the internet can be saved in this way: programs, archives, photos, music, videos or whatever you want.
After a download, you can open that file by clicking on the link that appears in the pop-up.
The last item in the options menu of the extension is used to decide whether to download documents of type doc or docx., Xls or xlsx, ppt etc. are converted as editable documents via applications to create documents, spreadsheets or presentations.
The extension has only one shortcoming which we hope will be corrected in future versions, the downloaded files and images of the websites are all saved in the main folder of Google Drive and there is no option to create decide which folder to put them in.
For users who already use Google Drive this is a great extension to install on Chrome while for all the others it is an opportunity to activate the cloud service for Google and use it for every need.
I remember there was already a similar extension called Drag2Up for Chrome than for Firefox.
In another article, however, the best programs to save entire websites on the PC and the browser to browse offline are reported.
