Google Desktop - add a browser to sidebar
How to add a browser to Google Desktop
This article will show you how you can embedd a browser into the Google Desktop sidebar.
- Go to the Add/Remove panels window of Google Desktop:
- Check Show ActiveX plug-ins - it'll take some seconds and the list of plugins/panels will be much longer.
- Search for Microsoft Web Browser and check it.
- Press OK and your Google Desktop sidebar will now have a new, empty entry called Microsoft Web Browser.
- To use it, you can just drag a url into the window. Come on, just view this page in the browser panel: click on the url in your browser and drag it into the Microsoft Web Browser panel - and you'll see it there.
Conclusion
This is an easy way to add a browser to the Google Desktop sidebar - but since the embedded browser doesn't have a specific menu or actions it's just too simple. Zooming in or out a webpage would be nice to have. Opera provides this functionality - there you can even zoom images and other embedded medias, but unfortunately there is no ActiveX object that could be used.
So more work is needed to provide a really useful browser plugin. But for now the embedded ActiveX Microsoft Web Browser plugin / panel does it's job.
