Super Drag and Drop extension

7twenty

it can be due to lack of ideas to improve it

Adding background tabs was suggested by someone in the review section, and nothing came of it. Could be that it was never noticed or something else...

I'll send the email... and i guess see what happens.

@nomadic said in Super Drag and Drop:

Since you have already written the new code, you could make a pull request on the GitHub page to try and get your changes added

Was thinking about doing this. Will send an email first, see if there's any response. Then go from there.

leeuniverse

@7twenty ... Hey 7twenty... Were you an old "MyIE2/Maxthon" user around when I was as well?

You seem familiar. Remember me?

leeuniverse

@7twenty said in Super Drag and Drop:

@leeuniverse said in Super Drag and Drop:

I think the reason it's had so few upvotes is because very few browsers actually have this function, so very few people even know about it and/or have used it to know how useful it actually is.

I think that's the case. Unless you know about it and have made it a part of your workflow it's not something that most people would think to use. But once you do it's archaic going back to manually opening tabs just to search or even using a context menu option, or using ctrl/shift to open a new tab when clicking a link.

With regards to recommended extensions i've changed to using uSuperDrag. It allows you to cancel a drag with ESC, and doesn't break dragging text in text boxes. Only downside is that it will only open in a foreground tab. I've updated my install so it can also open in background tabs, and it is, as far as i can tell, the perfect Super drag/drop extension.

I find it odd that there are so many of them, all of which seemingly having some sort of issue - Missing features, too complex, not enough options.

Exactly... Can't live without it.
Ya, I MUST have "open as a background tab", so pretty please with sugar on top can we have yours? LOL
Ya, story of our lives, so many things we want/need and they are "incomplete", quality control these days tick me off LOL.
I mean as good as Vivaldi is they can't even get Bookmark Folder Icons a proper color, aka proper "contrast" with the text. Instead they give us these "Ghost" Folder Icons LOL.

leeuniverse

So, I found another Drag and Drop called "Yet Another Drag and Go FIX"
It's pretty nice... Haven't tested everything, not sure how ESC is supposed to work (close the opened tab? If so maybe that part doesn't work? I've never used that ability in browsers, I just double click tab to close if I don't want it lol)

But, what I need works, and also doesn't break dragging files into windows which I discovered "Super Drag" DOES do, so can't use that one.

FYI

7twenty

@leeuniverse said in Super Drag and Drop:

Hey 7twenty... Were you an old "MyIE2/Maxthon" user around when I was as well?
You seem familiar. Remember me?

yep, that's me. And yes i do.

@leeuniverse said in Super Drag and Drop:

they can't even get Bookmark Folder Icons a proper color,

Well that's a design decision, nothing else.

@leeuniverse said in Super Drag and Drop:

not sure how ESC is supposed to work

I think that's just a way to cancel the drag if you change your mind. NOthing to do with closing tabs.

TsunamiZ

@leeuniverse
@7twenty

i was previously a myie2/maxthon user. i started using myie2 in late 2003, before it was renamed maxthon. i used maxthon up to maxthon 2 due to the rich feature set, until mid 2018 when the compatibility with modern webpages was a broken mess. maxthon 1 and 2 were very powerful and feature rich web browsers like vivaldi. but disappointingly, maxthon's feature set got very dumbed down starting with maxthon 3, although it was still more feature rich than most web browsers. i also casually used maxthon 4 as a secondary browser from late 2013 until late 2016, then i switch to vivaldi 1 as a secondary browser. in mid 2018, i switched to vivaldi 1 as my main browser. so yeah, i too am a web browser power user veteran.

TsunamiZ

@7twenty

you might also want to try this extension...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/super-drag-for-google-chr/dlknjglebgomjjfaijjnebecgjbfjihk

7twenty

@tsunamiz said in Super Drag and Drop:

you might also want to try this extension...

As noted on the first page, that's what i was using based on your initial suggestion. Just that it always had the broken drag in textbox issue.

I started looking again recently and found uSuperDrag and realised it was relatively simple to add the one feature that made it unusable for me.

TsunamiZ

@7twenty

"Super Drag for Google Chrome" was recently "Updated December 26, 2021" so you might want to try it again.

leeuniverse

@tsunamiz @7twenty ... Ha haa... I thought I remembered you both, but wasn't 100% sure.
It's nice to see you guys still caring about the browser we use like me.

Ya, I actually left Maxthon when it became a standalone, no longer a shell because of it losing good plugin support, losing the Middle Tab Bar, and it just seemed a resource hog. Actually, I used Maxthon Classic for several years after that until you couldn't use it anymore on the web.
I then found 360Chrome (aka 360 Extreme Explorer) which was almost a copy of Maxthon, not perfect but having essentially ALL the main features I needed and I could use Googles Extensions.

Anyway, used that for many years and it recently had a YouTube video issue which they wouldn't fix (though likely fixed in the new 64bit version but they haven't translated that one yet and likely won't.
So, was trying to use Maxthon again since they finally switched to Chromium also which they should have done originally, not doing so they lost all their users. But, they still won't add the middle tab bar, and there are a few other issues as well they clearly have a small dev team now, likely just one person LOL, so the support just isn't there anymore.

So, went hunting and found Vivaldi, it's developed enough... while also not perfect, able to get it to work good enough, and hopefully everything else will work out since the development seems great.
So, here I am... I'm 99.99% sure I'm going to stick with Vivaldi going forward. I feel so bad for Maxthon, it could have been Vivaldi if they had went Chromium originally, or just continued to be a SHELL?

Anyway, miss you all...

Yes, "Super Drag for Google Chrome" still doesn't work for dragging things, pics etc. into drop windows, such as at Imgur. That's why I switch to "Yet Another Drag and Go FIX". Also would be great for @7twenty to upload his "fixed" version of the one he uses.

nomadic

@tsunamiz said in Super Drag and Drop:

one more idea is to cancel a drag by clicking the right mouse button

Decided to take a quick look into doing this, but it doesn't appear possible using the standard dragging behavior. None of the listeners fire while a drag is in progress. Saw something about using mousedown and mouseup to simulate a drag might work, but not sure.

Do you currently use an extension that allows this?

Otherwise you could probably set up something like AutoHotKey to send the Escape key if you press the right mouse button while the left mouse button is being held down.

TsunamiZ

@nomadic

i use an extension called "Linkclump" that can cancel a mouse drag with a click, although it is a different kind of dragging. i have it set to use CTRL+RIGHTCLICK to do a drag of a selection area. here...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/linkclump/lfpjkncokllnfokkgpkobnkbkmelfefj

7twenty

@nomadic said in Super Drag and Drop:

Decided to take a quick look into doing this, but it doesn't appear possible using the standard dragging behavior. None of the listeners fire while a drag is in progress.

Thank you for noting that. I've been playing around with this the past few days and couldn't get anything to work once the drag starts. I thought i was doing something wrong, but seems more likely it's a limitation rather than my poor understanding of JS.

@nomadic said in Super Drag and Drop:

Otherwise you could probably set up something like AutoHotKey to send the Escape key if you press the right mouse button while the left mouse button is being held down.

I literally just setup the same thing yesterday . Works perfectly, but not great for people that don't use AHK, or don't want to install something just for that.

That got me thinking about implementing it as a rocker gesture. Found an extension to see how others have coded it, but even with that, it only works when the mouse is still - once you start dragging that option fails.

Streptococcus

@leeuniverse said in Super Drag and Drop extension:

But Super Drag and Drop is missing... A key feature I use every day.
Select a Word/Text/Link, and then just grab it and drop it on the page itself (super fast and easy), and it opens a background Tab Search for the Word/Text or if a Link going to the webpage.

(Update... Looks like the "Super Drag & Drop Extension" works, but would still like DEFAULT modern browser functions to be in the browser itself as an option rather than using extensions for everything.)
Thanks again...

Can you not work around that? I can copy a word (or a phrase) from a document and paste it into the search bar to look it up. I can also copy a link from an email or another browser and paste that into the address bar.
I use Cmd (or Ctrl for Windows or Linux) with c to copy and Cmd/Ctrl with v to paste.

7twenty

@streptococcus said in Super Drag and Drop extension:

Can you not work around that? I can copy a word (or a phrase) from a document and paste it into the search bar to look it up.

Of course it can be worked around, but why do things the hard way when there's a better way?

Moving the mouse to the address bar requires much more effort in terms of accuracy + more mouse travel compared to a quick flick of the wrist.

@streptococcus said in Super Drag and Drop extension:

I use Cmd (or Ctrl for Windows or Linux) with c to copy and Cmd/Ctrl with v to paste.

Or you can accomplish the same with a literal flick of the wrist.

It really is something you need to try and use for a bit to realise just how good of a feature it is.

I have to use a pretty locked down browser at work, and having to resort to keyboard or mouse copy/paste or drag to address bar just feels wrong compared to how easy it is when i'm at home.

Streptococcus

@7twenty
I use a trackball rather than a mouse. There is not much room on my table, and this way, all I need to do is spin the ball, while the base stays still.