Better Explorer is a Chromium extension to tweak the default browser's file explorer.
It only supports the MacOS file system by now. Sorry, I did this while I was boring. If you want to contribute to bring this extension to Windows / Linux users, feel free to raise a PR!
You'll find in the line #1 of the content.js script a constant named username, this is your computer username. That username will be use this to build the following "locations":
- Home folder
- Downloads
- Documents
- Pictures
- Movies
Well, this a pretty interesting question. The FileSystem API just can be used in a secure context (https), so, given that file:// isn't a secure context this extension can't use the FS API.
If you're a developer, you already know it. If you're a basic user, follow the next steps:
Download this repository
Click the "Download" button on the top of this repo. The code will be downloaded as a .zip. Extract it in a folder.
Upload the extension to your browser
Go to chrome://extensions/, edge://extensions/, brave://extensions/ or whatever you're using an enable de Developer mode option. You can find this option in the upper right.
Once the developer mode is enabled, click on the "Load unpacked" button. This will show you a prompt to choose a folder. Pick the folder where you extracted the .zip in the previous step.
That's all. You can go to file:// in your browser and enjoy the new look.