FR: Stop redirecting when I drag a file onto a page |
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Issue descriptionSteps: 1) Open some page with a long form that also requires you to upload a file. 2) Spend 20 mins filling out the form. 3) Think you're clever and can skip using the website's arcane file upload system by simply dragging the file onto the upload area, thinking it's a drop target. 4) It's not. 5) Chrome thinks it's a valid user intent to replace an active page with a PDF. 6) Congrats, you've lost 20 mins of work. Here's what I'd propose: If I'm on a blank tab and drag a file on, Chrome opens that file. If I'm on an active tab and drag a file on, either do nothing, or open the file in a new tab.
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Sep 1 2017
If a zip or other file that cannot be natively displayed by the browser is dropped, the current behavior (in the absence of own js handler for drag'n'drop on the page) doesn't make much/any sense, indeed. Especially since there's no indication what actually will happen. However, it might be better to simply warn before redirection because this feature is a very old one and certainly some/many people use it the way it is to redirect to a local html or text-based file or to a new URL dragged from another browser window or app (I do).
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Sep 1 2017
And by "warn before redirection" I mean a non-intrusive OS tooltip under the cursor, not a blocking confirmation dialog.
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Sep 7 2017
Since this is a marked as feature request, untriaging this issue for further triage.
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Sep 13
Archiving old bugs that haven't been actively assigned in over 180 days. If you feel this issue should still be addressed, feel free to reopen it or to file a new issue. Thanks! |
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Comment 1 by kapishnikov@chromium.org
, Sep 1 2017