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Didn't work for me with Dropbox. Saved something to my Dropbox, but the file it saves wouldn't open properly.
Ditto here with PDF => Google Docs
Worked fine for me. Tested with that same PDF, and with a random JPG, both with gdocs as the target. This extension will be absolutely awesome on my CR-48.
Works fine for me. Just uploaded the Quantum Entanglement PDF from the front page of HN onto my Google docs. I can see this being big.
Doesn't seem to include a filename - there's talk of not needing a file system, and while you can save data without a filename, it's harder to load the correct data if you don't know what it is.

Or... could searching be the alternative? And perhaps tagging? Like gmail for docs. If your document includes a title that's unique, then that string is sufficient to identify it. You could also list them all with a very brief preview, if you've not quite sure what you're looking for (browsing).

Right-Click -> Save As -> Dropbox will let you change the filename and Save.
By our very own antimatter15[0] who happens to also be 16 years old now. Has also released lots of other cool things for the web like the Ajax Animator[1] and an excellent article[2] on the whole VP8 vs H.264 video wars that clears up a lot of misinformation. His Github[3] is very impressive.

[0]: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=antimatter15

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ginffkjapdobanedcb...

[2]: http://antimatter15.com/wp/2011/01/the-ambiguity-of-open-and...

[3]: https://github.com/antimatter15

A neat idea, but somewhat unnecessary for me personally as a DropBox user. I can just save locally to disk and it will appear in DropBox.
It is useful if you're using a computer that is not yours.
A computer that isn't yours that you have to download an extension and provide a user login?
If you login to the chrome browser, all of your extensions are automatically installed.
Is this Googles answer it iCloud? A context menu?
Ugh, I wish I could delete the above comment. I made it as I was in a hurry to leave.

Is this Google's answer to iCloud? A context menu?

It's by antimatter15, not Google.
You weren't being downvoted for the grammar — rather for not bothering to click through or at least hover over the link and find out that's not actually on Google.com, but rather on a Google Site for antimatter15.