Aug 28 2019 03:44 AM
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 really important thing that keeps us from switching to Edge: the possibility to use Google docs offline.
There is this extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-docs-offline/ghbmnnjooekpmoecnnnilnnbdlolhkhi that allows users to use all their google docs offline. We installed it on Edge but it's not working. Please, please, please, find a way for us to use google docs offline on Edge, we want so much to switch to Edge!
Aug 29 2019 10:31 AM
@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.
Aug 29 2019 12:54 PM
@Eric_MS Thanks a lot Eric. If you make it works, we will worship you for the rest of our life.
May 02 2020 07:35 PM
Solution
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.
May 04 2020 09:43 AM
@DavidGB That's super! Thanks a lot!
Just a note: for step 4, open Google drive, clear on the gear, then follow the step 4 image
May 04 2020 12:33 PM
I'll also just add that that same user agent switcher extension recommended in that post is also available from the Microsoft Edge App store, and it's easy to set it so it only spoofs the Google Chrome user Agent on Google sites like the Google Drive etc sites (open settings, switch to whitelist mode and enter google.com in the whitelist box) but reports you as Edge everywhere else.
May 05 2020 12:20 AM
May 02 2020 07:35 PM
Solution
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.