I really like Google Chrome for its speed and security, as well as its modern look. But the lack of this one basic feature is absolutely laughable!
“You cannot open up attachments in e-mail directly from the e-mail itself! You have to download them!” I found out this is true in ALL of Google Chrome’s relationships with e-mail clients, except for G-Mail, which I think can open normally. I have Yahoo Mail and love it! However, here is the issue with the Download Manager and a workaround:
"By default, Google Chrome saves ALL downloads by creating a “Downloads” folder and placing it in your “My Documents” folder at installation. You can Rename, Delete, and/or change this folder in the path settings for Google Chrome. The default setting for downloads is to automatically open all documents by clicking on a doc attachment in the download information bar at the bottom of the screen, so you will think that you are just opening up the attachment. But in reality, attachment afaik goes to the “Download” folder.
If you check the option to “Ask me where to download files each time.” by checking it, you will only be able to download ANY attachments to your hard drive. Maybe G-Mail will open normally, and I know that my photo attachments opened in Yahoo Mail’s slide show application. The point is, WHY DOES CHROME NOT PROVIDE AN OPTION TO JUST OPEN UP ANY ATTACHMENTS FROM BY CLICKING ON THEM FROM YOUR E-MAIL INBOX?
I have a file path in Google Chrome’s Download Manager to a subfolder in My Documents, called Temp Downloads. It’s the only workaround to get files to Open directly from the mail client in Chrome. Is there any reason why Google Chrome has yet to impliment an Open attatchment option directly from a web browser? I checked the Google Help files for Chrome, and this request has been forwarded to the Google Chrome Developers for the past 3 years!
Since Avast has a relationship with Google Chrome, my question is, What would be an advantage of not having a direct way to open e-mail attatchments? The only thing I could think of would be that Google Chrome is using that extra step as a form of allowing people to think before opening up attatchments to reduce virual infections? I can’t think of what else it would be. The argument is weak IMO. The main point is, could Avast maybe do anything to expidite the process of getting the ability to open e-mail attatchments in Chrome without having to download them first? Every other browser has a direct open attatchment option without the need to download from an e-mail.
What attachment are you talking about ??? I open document and pdf files attached to Google directly in Google all the time.
Since you can’t attach an executable file to a gmail, you also can’t directly open one sent to you.
Thank you for responding. I understand now that this has nothing to do with Avast. I want to give credit to Google Chrome Groups and a post below from a user that may better explain what I am trying to say, because the user and I have the same experiance:
Here is the issue:
“I use Yahoo Mail. I get attachments as word docs etc. Mostly I do not want to download them to my PC. I just want to open them and read them. When I click on the download button on the document, Chrome asks me where would I like to save the attachment. It does not give me an option only to open it. This is a big hassle as I do not want to save the documents, just want to read them. If I just open them, they would be deleted by the IE (and hopefully Chrome) automatically once I close them. But if I save them, I have to go and specifically delete them from the download location. This can become cumbersome if the download location has some file I want to keep and some that I do not want to keep.”
Here is more detail from other users about this issue with Google Chrome at Google Groups: (scroll up to read from the beginning.)
Personally I never open email attachments directly from the email (be that webmail or standard email viewed through the email client), I always save the attachment to my hard disk or download to my hard disk. Having saved it to my hard disk it is scanned by avast and my anti-spyware applications before I would consider running it.
I don’t like surprises as when on/in-line I don’t have control over how or what might open it.
Most browsers require that you have a PDF Reader installed and that you have some form of browser plugin to be able to display the pdf in the browser, I don’t know if chrome has its own inbuilt pdf reader or if the same would apply for it. I know when I install/update my PDF reader I explicitly don’t allow it to install a plugin to display the pdf in my browser/s.
With rare exceptions, anything I’m accessing that’s in PDF format I’ll want to save for future reference anyway, e.g. that’s the format used by our local transit system for its online schedules. So I’ll save the file, and use a third-party reader (PDF-Xchange) which I’ve set up not to act as a browser plugin.
I don’t understand how you can open an email in Chrome in the first place. Doesn’t it open in whatever your preferred client is? Personally, I have always hated Yahoo Mail and considered it the worst of the web based providers but when I click on a link to my Yahoo mail, it always opens in Yahoo mail. I also allow pdf’s to open in the browser but I use the plugins from PDF-Xchange. I have never even seen an email option in Chrome except for when I go to the Yahoo pages.
I wholeheartedly agree…I found this thread, in fact, while searching for the very same “fix.” I’m astonished that folks are wasting their time and yours telling you why they don’t open PDFs and why Yahoo webmail is bad. That’s not what you asked…you want to know (as do I) why Google Chrome will only let you save PDF attachments in your webmail session (Yahoo, Roadrunner, whatever) instead of doing what IE does and allow it to open. I’m sure there are plug ins I could find and install to allow this to work, but I shouldn’t have to do it. So, just an FYI that I will be going back to IE…I have much better things to do with my time than try to search out OTHER programs to do what Google should have done all along.
If you switch to Opera, FF or IE you won’t have a bloody problem with yahoo mail, gee half of my friends are having so many problems between Chrome and Yahoo any way most of them are happy with FF and Opera when they removed Chrome…Please don’t ask me why is a long bloody story :-X
Good for you Bob the builder you’re the luckiest person on the planet who doesn’t have a problem with Chrome and Yahoo, my major problem on the end of my tail with my friends who don’t have enough computer experience from right to wrong and even worsted bloody malware virus and trojans etc etc and list goes on half of them don’t even used windows update. No matter how much I try so bloody hard to save them from HELL because they won’t bloody listen to me and trust me about internet security malware, trojans and even arsehole in the real world…I give up no matter how hard I try to get then to listen to me and used Avast because they keep getting rip off by arsehole Av companies like norton for example is a piece of crap they just want money…at the end of the day its their bloody problem & they’re screwed without a condom they’re exposed to AIDS and they are F#cked.
PS. Don’t ASK me why I give up because it their bloody problem when they don’t listen and they don’t do enough bloody home work because they are SCREWED!..and hell with them and the end of the day they can scratch their own bare arse and not mind.
Sorry I’ve got to many problem on the end of my tail and haft of friends who don’t have the balls to explain their own problems on the Avast forum with the BSOD problems with Avast v8.0.1488 W8 64bit t is driving me bloody nuts :‘( :’( :‘( :’( :‘( :’( :‘( :’( :‘( :’( :‘( :’( :‘( :’( :‘( :’( :‘( :’( :‘( :’( :‘( :’( :‘( :’( :‘( :’( :‘( :’( :‘( :’( :‘( :’( :‘( :’( :‘( :’(
PS. I can’t listening…why I’m deaf with a cochlear implant the sound I hear in the real world is very very robotic, and for another words when I hear 5 thousand people for example they’re all sound the same only one key and one note is not like a piano sound in the real world and believe me it bloody hard.
