Drag and drop attachments into Gmail

Posted February 20, 2008 * Comments(5)

I use Gmail, and although I love it in general, one thing that is a little tedious is that when you want to send someone an attachment, you can't drag and drop the attachment onto your message like you can with most native email clients -- instead you have to click "Attach a file," then click "Browse," and then browse to the file that you want to attach.

But dragdropupload is a slick little Firefox extension that addresses this problem. Once you install it, you can drag and drop any file from your computer on top of the words "Attach a file" in Gmail. Sweet! (You can also drag and drop onto any other website that does file upload, but Gmail is where I find it most useful.)

5 Comments so far

  1. matt clark on March 1st, 2009

    Thanks for this great addon that has been one of the most useful bits of software.

    Shame gmail has changed and will now work - what a shame google..

  2. matt clark on March 1st, 2009

    Notice this still can work!!!

    Just change attachment in gmail options and works!!!

  3. rubyq on September 30th, 2009

    sweet! thanks. also find it hyper-annoying

  4. saurabu081283 on March 10th, 2010

    i want to drag and drop option in my gmail account

  5. Mithun pal on September 19th, 2011

    i want the drag and drop with file attachment code .it is urgent

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