Open Local Files in Google Chrome™
Chrome extension by Free Software Extensions · Productivity · Tools
A Chrome extension in Productivity · Tools with 5 000 users, a small but real audience. Audience over the last 30 days: unchanged.
Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open.
What the developer says, and 1 screenshot
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- Users
- 5 000
- Users, last 30 days
- Unchanged (the store rounds this count to 1 000, so it moves only between steps)
- Rating, last 30 days
- Steady over 30 days
- Version
- 1.1.0
- Updated in the store
- 2026-07-07
- Published
- 2021-11-10
- Manifest
- V3
- Browser access
- 2 permissions, 1 site pattern
How it has moved
- 2026-10-295k
- 2026-10-29reviews17
- 2026-08-314k
- 2026-09-085k
- 2026-10-295k
- 2026-08-31reviews17
- 2026-09-08reviews17
- 2026-10-29reviews17
A dot marks a day the store showed a different number. Between them the line carries the last one forward: we read every listing up to 2 times a day and record a point only when something moves. History beyond ninety days is in the app.
What it can reach
Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open.
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Add items to the right-click menu
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Store data in your browser
storage
What changed recently
Nothing has moved on this listing since we started watching it.
The publisher
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