In September 07 – about four months ago – I wrote a post lamenting the lack of a good way to access Google documents from my desktop environment. I use Google Docs daily, and want to access the files as easily as I can browse my harddrive.

I proposed the Google Docs Sidebar – a Firefox Extension that uses the native browser sidebar to load in a user’s Google documents.

Well, ask and you shall receive. Introducing gDocsBar, a firefox extension that loads your Google documents into your sidebar.

It’s pretty much all I need, but it is a tad bloated and buggy. I notice a slight slowdown in my already out-of-control Firefox activity and memory. There’s also a weird bug for me that when you log in, you have to collapse and then re-expand the sidebar in order to see all the documents, otherwise it just keeps loading nothing.

For me, I can put up with those annoyances for the way-easy access to my Google Docs. I give this extension a 7/10.