Open local folder by explorer
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Open local folder in explorer from Chrome
Users
10K
Rating
4.2
Reviews
5
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0|0%
Stable signalNo paid features detectedHigh-risk permissions
Local Explorer - Open File Links in Chrome
Open local file links to hard disk, Azure AD, company shared folders, mapped network drive directly in corporate or local host site.
Users90KCurrent public install base
Rating3.6Store average score
Reviews327Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity
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Version2023.1.15.1
ManifestV3
Size149KiB
Languages43Deutsch / English / English (United Kingdom) +40
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Enable local file links in Chrome or Edge by using the Local Explorer browser extension. It lets you browse and open local file links directly in your web browser.
Local Explorer can enable local file links and open them in associated application when clicked. For examples, click a folder link to open Windows Explorer, click *.docx file to open MS Word, click *.avi file to open Windows Media Player, and so on...
You may use Local Explorer to open local file links & folder links to hard disk drives, Azure Active Directory or company's shared folders, mapped network drive directly in corporate website or local host site.
EXAMPLES
C:\Users\my_user_name\Documents ("My Documents" folders)
\\10.0.0.1\shared\local\folders\files (network drive)
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Store average score3.6Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average3.5Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text226Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews327Chrome Web Store public rating/review count
Store average score: 3.6. The bars below are calculated from synced review text only, so they may be empty for extensions that have public ratings but no synced comments yet.
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Extension works again in version 133.0.6943.60 (Officiële build) (64-bits)
Работает, локальные ссылки вида C:\Program Files\ открывает. Необходимо компонент установить. Недостаток -- не выделяет подобные ссылки в Google Sheets.
Windows only. Tried to use in chrome on Chromebook and says I need LocalExplorer.exe https://www.vnprodev.com/browser-extensions/local-explorer-install.php?thanks&ws=chrome&br=chrome
大変便利な機能です。 日本語を含むフォルダにも対応して頂けると 更に利便性が上がります。
How to open folders have non-english name?
for those who are not able to use the extension after chrome update, you can try to change \ to %5C, i.e. localexplorer:%5C%5C<server> for developers, you can use encodeURIComponent to encode the URL
It used to be a great add-on to Chrome but lately it became quite cumbersome to manage whenever there is a new Windows update, it stops working and even after several reinstall it still doesn't work.
Hello, Very useful extension for accessing folders on the network, but since the last Chrome update it stopped working, is there any solution?
Please update the extension to make it works with UNC paths after the Chrome 130.x update.
I have upvoted all comments mentioning that it does not work in the new version of Chrome when trying to open network paths. I had to switch to using Firefox, hopefully temporarily.