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OpenItOnline: A Firefox Extension for Quickly Viewing Files Using Web Apps

Here is an interesting Firefox extension if you open documents and spreadsheets frequently in online hosted applications such as Google's, Zoho's or ThinkFree: OpenItOnline. (Hat tip to DownloadSquad for calling this one out.)  You can install this extension in a minute or so, and create file type associations that will default to the online applications you specify to open files. This saves you from, say, having to install Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Writer, or another application to open a .doc file, or a standalone image viewer to look at an image. Here's a peek at how it works.

When you install OpenItOnline, it prompts you for online applications that you would like to use to open files housed online. I specified that Zoho applications--which are free, hosted applications found at Zoho.com--are the ones I'd like to use by default. In the screenshot below, you can see how OpenItOnline prompts you to choose which application you'd like to use to open, say, a .doc file. I don't have to open Microsoft Word to open a .doc file. I can choose Zoho Writer, or other options.

I can always choose to use an application such as Word to open a file, or Firefox will prompt me to make other choices:

OpenItOnline is out in a new version, with information on what's been added here. With it, you don't even need to have OpenOffice, MicrosoftOffice, or other offline software to quickly view documents, images, presentations and spreadsheets stored online. Pretty handy.

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