> > As to what they mean by drag and go; I assume that one means dragging a > bookmark or URL tag to the address bar, dropping it and having the browser > go to it or search for it without any further user interaction. If I'm > wrong I'm sure somone will correct me.
If I'm not mistaken, Chrome already does this. You can already drag a hyperlinked url up to the address bar to go straight to that page, or drag it to the tab bar to open it in a new tab. And you can drag any selected plain text to the address bar to go to that website if it's a url, or perform a google search if it's not a url. Dragging plain text to the tab bar does not open it in a new tab, and perhaps it should... On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 6:51 AM, S D Allen <[email protected]>wrote: > Not a dumb question at all -- Especially if you've never used a UNIX type > of OS. > As to what they mean by drag and go; I assume that one means dragging a > bookmark or URL tag to the address bar, dropping it and having the browser > go to it or search for it without any further user interaction. If I'm > wrong I'm sure somone will correct me. [?] > > As for wget; > > *Description: retrieves files from the web* > Wget is a network utility to retrieve files from the Web using http(s) and > ftp, the two most widely used Internet protocols. It works > non-interactively, so it will work in the background, after having logged > off. The program supports recursive retrieval of web-authoring pages as well > as ftp sites -- you can use wget to make mirrors of archives and home pages > or to travel the Web like a WWW robot. > > HTH > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Rahul Pawa <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Sorry for asking what might be the dumb question, but what do you mean by >> "drag-and-go"? and what is wget? >> >> Rahul >> >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Lycan. Mao. < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi. I think chrome needs drag-and-go or similar features to enable >>> people to open links quickly. 90% of my class use Maxthon, which takes >>> drag-and-go as a core feature, and half of the rest use quick drag on >>> Firefox. I saw some one talked about it months ago, and I want to >>> express my need for this again. >>> >>> We took thunder as our download manager in the past, however, we don't >>> use it now. 60% of my study group choose wget. We let flashgot on >>> Firefox to pass most of our downloading requests to wget, except >>> downloading attachment from gmail. And I think it works quite well. >>> >>> Thank you very much! >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > Cheers, > Steve > > http://stephen-allen.office-on-the.net > http://www.linkedin.com/in/torontostephenallen > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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