Dragging files to Chrome is convenient ... the first time. The next ones can make us a mess in web cards and applications. The problem was solved by a Microsoft engineer.
What happens when you grab a file and drag it to a Chrome or other Chromium-based browser window? Usually what it should: the browser will open a new tab and display the file if it can. It's a convenient method to quickly open a photo, PDF document or other material without leaving the browser interface.
The problem is that this feature works quite unpredictably. If a website or application running in the last of the Chromium browser tabs contains forms that support the drag and drop mechanism, dragging the new file - instead of opening the new tab - will work slightly differently. More specifically, replacing the last open tab with a preview of the dragged file.
It can be particularly frustrating when, for example, on the last tab we filled out some web form. All our effort is then wasted.
Soon. The current Chrome deficiency associated with file dragging for years has been repaired by Microsoft.
Microsoft has provided a patch to the Chromium project that changes the browser's behavior so that regardless of the situation, each file dragged into the browser window is always opened in a new tab.
Microsoft has developed the aforementioned patch for its Chromium-based Edge browser, but it was the test version of Chrome - also based on Chromium - that was the first to introduce it for testing by users. Other browsers using Chromium will introduce this improvement in the coming weeks. For today you can check them in Chrome 85.0.4163.0 from the Canary channel - and in a few weeks in the production version of Chrome.
Microsoft fixes dragging files to Chrome. Edge and other browsers will also benefit
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