How to open SharePoint files in Chrome Firefox

Question

In Internet Explorer  I can open Sharepoint files directly from their links so the file in Sharepoint is automatically updated when I save it  But in Chrome  it asks to download the file instead of just opening it  In Firefox  it can open the file but still just downloads it to a temporary folder then opening it   How can I directly open Sharepoint files in Chrome or Firefox just like I do in Internet Explorer

User · Answer

You can use web-based protocol handlers for the links as per https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/70178/how-does-sharepoint-2013-enable-editing-of-documents-for-chrome-and-fire-fox

Basically, just prepend ms-word:ofe|u| to the links to your SharePoint hosted Word documents.

User · Answer

Installing the Chrome extension IE Tab did the job for me   It has the ability to auto-detect URLs so whenever I browse to our SharePoint it emulates Internet Explorer  Finally I can open Office documents directly from Chrome   You can install IETab for FireFox too

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Thanks to  LyphTEC that gave a very interesting way to open an Office file in edit mode   It gave me the idea to change the function  DispEx that is called when the user clicks on a file into a document library  By hacking the original function we can them be able to open a dialog  for Firefox Chrome  and ask the user if he she wants to readonly or edit the file    See below the JavaScript code I used  My code is for Excel files  but it could be modified to work with Word documents too              fix problem with Excel documents on Firefox Chrome  see https   blog kodono info wordpress 2017 02 09 how-to-open-an-excel-document-from-sharepoint-files-into-chromefirefox-in-readonlyedit-mode       param   HTMLElement  p the  lt A gt  element     param   HTMLEvent  a the click event     param   Boolean  h TRUE     param   Boolean  e FALSE     param   Boolean  g FALSE     param   Strin  k the ActiveX command  e g   SharePoint OpenDocuments 3       param   Number  c 0     param   String  o the activeX command  here we look at  SharePoint OpenDocuments      param   String  m     param   String  b the replacement URL to the xslviewer     var bak DispEx  var modalOpenDocument     it will be use with the modal SP SOD executeOrDelayUntilEventNotified function       bak DispEx    DispEx     DispEx function p  a  h  e  g  k  c  o  m  b  j  l  i  f  d           if o    SharePoint OpenDocuments   amp  amp   IsClientAppInstalled o         in that case we want to open ask the user if he she wants to readonly or edit the file     var fileURL   b replace     layouts  xlviewer  aspx  id          1        if  o      SharePoint OpenDocuments   amp  amp   IsClientAppInstalled o   amp  amp     xlsx    test fileURL              if the URL doesn t start with http       if     http  test fileURL             fileURL   window location protocol          window location host   fileURL                var ohtml   document createElement  div          ohtml style padding    10px         ohtml style display    inline-block         ohtml style width    200px         ohtml style width    200px         ohtml innerHTML     lt style gt                             opendocument button   background-color  fdfdfd  border 1px solid  ababab  color  444  display inline-block  padding  7px 10px                               opendocument button hover   box-shadow  none                              opendocument readonly  opendocument edit   float none  font-size  100   line-height  1 15  margin  0  overflow  visible  box-sizing  border-box  padding  0  height auto                              opendocument ul   list-style-type none margin-top 10px margin-bottom 10px padding-top 0 padding-bottom 0                              lt  style gt                            You are about to open                             lt ul class  opendocument ul  gt                               lt li gt Name   lt b gt   fileURL split      slice -1    lt  b gt  lt  li gt                               lt li gt From   lt b gt   window location hostname   lt  b gt  lt  li gt                             lt  ul gt                            How would like to open this file                             lt ul class  opendocument ul  gt                               lt li gt  lt label gt  lt input type  radio  name  opendocument choices  id  opendocument readonly  checked gt  Read Only lt  label gt  lt  li gt                               lt li gt  lt label gt  lt input type  radio  name  opendocument choices  id  opendocument edit  gt  Edit lt  label gt  lt  li gt                             lt  ul gt                             lt div style  text-align  center margin-top  20px   gt  lt button type  button  class  opendocument button  style  background-color   2d9f2d color   fff   onclick  modalOpenDocument close document getElementById   opendocument edit    checked   gt Open lt  button gt   lt button type  button  class  opendocument button  style  margin-left 10px  onclick  modalOpenDocument close -1   gt Cancel lt  button gt  lt  div gt             show the modal       modalOpenDocument SP UI ModalDialog showModalDialog           html ohtml          dialogReturnValueCallback function ret              if  ret   -1                if  ret     true       edit                  reformat the fileURL               var ext                if     xlsx    test b   ext    ms-excel                 if     docx    test b   ext    ms-word      not currently supported               fileURL   ext     ofe u     fileURL                            window location href   fileURL     open the file                                       a preventDefault          a stopImmediatePropagation         a cancelBubble   true        a returnValue   false        return false            return bak DispEx apply this  arguments           sp scriptloaded-core js     I use SP SOD executeOrDelayUntilEventNotified to make sure the function will be executed when core js is loaded

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