The Files app for Chrome OS has an update planned for October, which will include support for additional archive file formats.
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How to zip & Unzip files on Chromebook
9to5Google reports that the Chrome OS Files app will begin supporting additional archive file formats with a new update, scheduled for release in October. While the lack of support hasn't stopped users from being able to open specific files (other apps can do the job), it would be more convenient to open most archived files with a single app.
According to a post on Chromium Gerrit, the added formats include 7z, bz2, crx, gz, iso, tar, tbz, and tbz2. As 9to5Google points out, there is some interesting potential in some of these file formats, as they serve different purposes. For example, .crx files are used to archive official Chrome extensions, while .iso files have been used to archive operating systems.
Tape Archive (.tar) files are commonly used to combine multiple files into one for Linux and Unix systems. BZIP2 compressed (.bz2) files are typically used to compress file containers that cannot normally be compressed, and are typically only used with Unix-based systems. BZIP Compressed Tar Archive files (.tbz and .tbz2) are a combination of the .tar and .bz2 formats that use BZIP2 to compress archived TAR files.
