Actually, there's a difference where you drag the text eg. hotscripts.com If you drag it to the tab strip, it won't work.
If you drag it to the Omnibox/address bar, then it will work. So the next closest thing to opening a new tab with that link is: right-click on your current tab and select "Duplicate", and then drag the text into the Omnibox in the new tab. On Dec 9, 10:54 pm, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I suggest that any text, with or without the "http://"; prefix, be > enabled to drag to places. What would be not good about this? > > On Dec 8, 10:12 am, dhhwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, you can drag URLs into the tab strip to open a new tab, or into > > the Omnibox to load in the current tab. > > > However, for the hotscripts.com mentioned, it does not work because it > > does not start with http:// If it was writtenhttp://hotscripts.com > > then you can drag it and it will automatically open. > > > You would have to select and copy the text, and in a New Tab right- > > click the Omnibox and Paste and Go. > > > On Dec 7, 5:46 pm, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Just now I realized that I can't drag text into the tab area to create > > > a new tab out of it. I was on this page: > > > >http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=91855 > > > > and when jshpro2 mention the site hotscripts.com I attempted to select > > > that text and drag it into the tab-bar area of Chrome. What happens is > > > my cursor turns into something like ∅ and I can't create a new tab out > > > of the text I dragged. > > > > I think it would be awesome if this was an ability in Chrome. Being > > > able to drag text in as many places would be very useful. Being able > > > to drag non-web-links into new tabs would be an easy way to google > > > search as well, instead of via a context menu. > > > > So I suggest that Chrome could enable the user to drag any text into > > > the tab-bar, a tab, omnibox, etc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
