By default, Google Drive opens Google Docs files with the default browser, which is Firefox in my case. Can I set Google Drive to open Google Docs files with Chrome?
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Best Answer
The browser does'n open a file locally, so you cannot associate a filetype to a particular software. The files are managed and opened through google docs.
What you want to do is somethink loke this: the link to the file should be like someserver.com/myfile.xls and that file to open in ms office through the web toolbar. If you would have the necessary rights this should work, but in your case it is much more complicated and it would be verry hard to do this.
Maybe you should download google drive and try this instead of the web browser version