Not only does Google’s Chrome browser allow for file navigation (type ‘C:\’ into Chrome!), it makes sense that the browser in Chrome OS will act as a system navigation tool, much like Windows Explorer or ‘My Computer’.
Recent changes to the code base reveal a ‘mount library’ that monitors newly-inserted devices such as USB memory sticks — something an operating system usually does — not the kind of thing a browser would usually worry about. We suspect that when you open a new tab in Chrome you’ll have the option of a ‘My Computer’ view that will update in real time as you plug in new devices or insert CDs. Or perhaps when you insert a USB device an Explorer-like new tab page will simply pop into existence.
Currently the changes only appear in the Chrome OS branch of the source code, but it doesn’t take a wild stretch of the imagination to believe that Google has larger, all-encompassing plans for the Mac and Windows platforms. This might just be the next step for the Google Desktop.
Watch out…Google is coming.
Chrome OS browser saddles up and mounts your drives originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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