I'm frequently opening files from websites (e.g. doc files) and is seems Chrome is missing the option to open it directly instead of saving it first (like possible in e.g.  IE, FF, Opera). Any hack around?
Opening files directly in Google Chrome
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At present Chrome will only download the file - it won't give you the option to Open or Save that other browsers give you.You can set files with certain file extension to open automatically after the download has completed.Taken from this Google Chrome FAQ articleIf you want certain types of files to  always open after they're done  downloading, click the arrow next to  the file button in the downloads bar  and select Always open files of this  type. To prevent potentially malicious  files from automatically downloading  to your computer, this option isn't  available for executable filetypes,  such as those with .exe, .dll, or .bat  extensions (for Windows), and .dmg  extensions (for MacThere is also a Chrome extension that previews some file types (PDF, Presentations etc) in the Google Docs Viewer.  This can be found here.Looking through some of the Google Chrome forums this feature has been requested numerous times since 2008 - the standard response of we are working on it has been always been the reply from Google.