# Drag and drop from desktop vs other browser window

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/drag-and-drop-from-desktop-vs-other-browser-window/16901>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [June 26, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/drag-and-drop-from-desktop-vs-other-browser-window/16901 "2014-06-26T20:35:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 26, 2014, 9:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/drag-and-drop-from-desktop-vs-other-browser-window/16901/2 "2014-06-26T21:59:13Z")

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> [@chrisallick](#):
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> 1. is there a way to turn that on in settings?

Nope since it’s not a setting. Haven’t tried it but this might require some code change to handle this use case.

> [@chrisallick](#):
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> 1. is there a way to use imgur for image uploads?

Nope. Right now we barely only support S3 as external storage. Feel free to build that as a plugin though.

> [@chrisallick](#):
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> 1. is there a way to have drag and dropped images from another browser window turn into an image tag?

Why would you need that?

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