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Iron Contributor

Aug 28, 2019

Solved

Support for offline Google Docs

We are longer-term Chrome users but we recently tried Chromium Edge dev. It's life-changing! Just to mention 1 quality: it's amazing how fast Edge is compared to Chrome. However, there is one reall...

DavidGB
May 03, 2020
Udi99

Have you tried the instructions at https://habr.com/en/post/493276/ ? It appears the Google extension to use Docs etc offline only wants to work in Google Chrome, but just checks the User-Agent, so if you set up a user-agent switching extension in Edge to report itself as Google Chrome when connecting to docs.google.com etc it should then let the extension to work offline work.

Eric_MS

Iron Contributor

Aug 29, 2019

07_19 Glad to hear you are enjoying Microsoft Edge. I'm unable to get Google Docs offline extension to work either. I will provide feedback to engineers about supporting Google Docs offline.

Eric E.

Udi99
Copper Contributor
Jan 25, 2020
Eric_MS

Any updates on that?
Thanks!
- DavidGB
  Iron Contributor
  May 03, 2020
  Udi99
  
  Have you tried the instructions at https://habr.com/en/post/493276/ ? It appears the Google extension to use Docs etc offline only wants to work in Google Chrome, but just checks the User-Agent, so if you set up a user-agent switching extension in Edge to report itself as Google Chrome when connecting to docs.google.com etc it should then let the extension to work offline work.
  - user0719
    Brass Contributor
    May 05, 2020
    DavidGB Great! Thank you very much!
07_19
Iron Contributor
Aug 29, 2019
Eric_MS Thanks a lot Eric. If you make it works, we will worship you for the rest of our life.