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How to Search Your Google Drive from Chrome’s Address Bar

No need for an extension. Here’s how to search your Google Drive files directly from Chrome’s address bar in just a couple of clicks.

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You don’t need an extension to search Google Drive from Chrome anymore. Chrome’s address bar can search your Drive files directly, built right in.

How to Search Drive from the Address Bar

  1. Click the address bar and type drive.google.com.
  2. Press Tab when Chrome shows the “Search Google Drive” suggestion.
  3. Type your search term and press Enter.

Quick Tips

  • You need to be signed into Chrome with the same Google account that has access to the Drive files.
  • If the Tab-to-search suggestion doesn’t appear, visit drive.google.com once in that profile to let Chrome learn the shortcut.

Now you can jump straight to any file in your Google Drive without opening a new tab first.

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Dinsan Francis is the founder of Chrome Story, which he started in 2009 — the same year Google launched Chrome. He has covered the Chrome browser and Chromebook ecosystem for over 15 years and has used Chromebooks as his primary computing device since 2010. He’s always on the bleeding edge, running the Canary build of both Chrome and ChromeOS as daily drivers.

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