Drive Explorer

Drive Explorer

Your Drive files in a popup or in a panel next to a document.

What is Drive Explorer?
Drive Explorer is a Chrome extension that provides convenient access to and management of Google Drive files. With features such as file organization, search, and offline access, it offers a note-taking app-like experience.
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Stats
Users: 429 ▲ 13
Version: 1.5.0 (Last updated: 2024-04-30)
Creation date: 2023-08-18
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • identity
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
  • tabs
  • alarms
  • declarativeNetRequest
Host permissions:
  • https://accounts.google.com/*
  • https://www.googleapis.com/*
  • https://drive-thirdparty.googleusercontent.com/*
  • https://docs.google.com/*
  • https://drive.google.com/*
  • https://colab.research.google.com/*
  • https://sites.google.com/*
  • https://script.google.com/*
  • https://jamboard.google.com/*
  • https://ogs.google.com/*
Size: 1.11M
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Summary

Get access to all of your Google Drive™ files, such as Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and more in a popup or in a side panel next to a document. This way you can turn it into a note-taking app similar to OneNote, Evernote, or Notion.

Features • Star/share/trash/rename/move/upload/create files or folders as you would normally do in Google Drive. • Shared drives support. • Dark/light theme. • Search and sort the files. Search can be done globally or in a sub-folder and its children only; you can perform a filename or a full-text search. • Home panels remember the last opened folder. • Shortcuts to focus on the panels, search, create a new document, etc. • Opens documents offline, provided you have the “Google Docs Offline” extension installed. Any offline actions like changing the folder color will be scheduled to run when the connection is restored.

Known limitations • “Shared with me” files that were shared to anyone with a link and not by adding your email address aren’t removable. Please, vote for this feature request: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/111567460 • Turning links into chips or sharing directly in a document is not possible in the page mode (documents embedded alongside the panel.) Suggestions on how to fix it are very welcome. • “Google My Maps” maps are not embeddable and are opened in a new tab.

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Safety
Risk impact

Drive Explorer is very risky to use and it requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Avoid installing this extension unless you absolutely trust this publisher.

Risk likelihood

Drive Explorer has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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