{"id":11479,"date":"2010-05-12T17:54:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T16:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/gmail-enables-image-drag-drop\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:13:53","slug":"gmail-enables-image-drag-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/gmail-enables-image-drag-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail enables image drag &amp; drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been able to drag and drop attachments into <a href=\"http:\/\/gmail-1.en.softonic.com\/web-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Gmail<\/strong><\/a> for a while now but until recently, it was limited to documents. It&#8217;s a great feature and it was only a matter of time before it <a href=\"http:\/\/gmailblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/drag-images-into-messages.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OfficialGmailBlog+%28Gmail+Blog%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extended to images too<\/a> &#8211; news we happily received today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/05\/5-12-2010-6-13-50-pm.png\" alt=\"5-12-2010-6-13-50-pm.png\" width=\"569\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only one problem &#8211; according to the developers, it is only available in <strong><a title=\"Download Chrome on Softonic\" href=\"http:\/\/google-chrome.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome<\/a><\/strong>. I tried it, and it works like a charm, but out of curiosity, I tried with <strong><a title=\"Download Firefox from Softonic\" href=\"http:\/\/firefox-3.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Firefox<\/a><\/strong> too and guess what &#8211; it worked! I don&#8217;t have the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gmailblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/new-in-labs-inserting-images.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Labs function<\/a><\/strong> enabled, so I&#8217;m a bit puzzled. Either Gmail are <em>really<\/em> fast, or there&#8217;s something going on that we&#8217;re not aware of. Either way take advantage and get dragging now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been able to drag and drop attachments into Gmail for a while now but until recently, it was limited to documents. It&#8217;s a great feature and it was only a matter of time before it extended to images too &#8211; news we happily received today. There&#8217;s only one problem &#8211; according to the developers, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/gmail-enables-image-drag-drop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gmail enables image drag &amp; drop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2339],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-11479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongmail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334960,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479\/revisions\/334960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11479"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=11479"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=11479"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=11479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}