Q:

Managing Microsoft documents inside SharePoint document library will behave differently according to the browser vender

I have a Document library inside my publishing site collection. now when the users clicks on any MS office documents inside the document library they will get different behaviors based on the browser type,as follow:-
On IE,

When the user clicks on a document they will get the following dialog box:-

If I check “Read-only”, the word document will open locally .

Then I can edit the word document (after clicking on the "Edit Document" button ) and save the changes back to the SP server.

On Chrome

When I click on a document it will open locally as normal document.

but if I save the changes it will not be save to the SharePoint server.

On the other hand , if I select the document and I click on “Edit” from the drop down list, the word document will open locally and when I save the changes it will be send to the SharePoint server.

So can anyone advice why I am having different behaviors based on the browser type? the IE behavior seems the most appropriate . but is there a way to make the behavior some how standard?and are there any plug-ins to install inside Chrome to have similar behavior as IE?
Regards

A:

As you mentioned, "To open the file in Office client application you use the Edit link in the preview box no more “Edit in Microsoft Word”.
This is the way to open/edit document into the Chrome Browser. As these browser supported but you will still face some difficulties as compare to IE. I would recommend always use IE unless their is requirement.
Also try the below extension, may help you solving the issue.
Installing the Chrome extension IE Tab did the job for me.
It has the ability to auto-detect URLs so whenever I browse to our SharePoint it emulates Internet Explorer. Finally I can open Office documents directly from Chrome.
You can install IE Tab for FireFox too.

