# Improved Image Handling
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-image-handling/221948
**Category:** Blog
**Created:** [July 4, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-image-handling/221948 "2013-07-04T22:00:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-image-handling/221948/1 "2013-07-04T22:00:00Z")
Although Discourse is open source discussion software designed around the fundamental concept of _paragraphs_, there is no denying that in this era of pervasive broadband, **online discussions are as much about images and videos now as they are about words**.
* * *
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://blog.discourse.org/2013/07/improved-image-handling/](https://blog.discourse.org/2013/07/improved-image-handling/)
---
### Author:  [@maiki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maiki)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 6:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-image-handling/221948/2 "2022-03-25T06:48:19Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
>
> - You can only paste in images if you are using Google Chrome. We really, _really_ wanted to get this working on Firefox but [were unable to without madness](http://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-paste-an-image-into-the-compose-form/1582).
> Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.
Now I’m super-curious!
---
### Author:  [@Decorbuz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Decorbuz)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-image-handling/221948/3 "2022-03-25T13:49:25Z")
Well, there clearly isn’t any madness anymore. Almost nine years later, it works just fine in Mozilla Firefox and just about every other major web browser. 😉
---
### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-image-handling/221948/4 "2022-03-25T14:24:12Z")
Looks like the topic has been deleted here on Meta, but it’s still available on the wayback machine:
[https://web.archive.org/web/20131111041627/http://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-paste-an-image-into-the-compose-form/1582](https://web.archive.org/web/20131111041627/http://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-paste-an-image-into-the-compose-form/1582)
(maybe we should update the link in the blog post to use the archived version @justin ?)
---
### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2022, 7:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-image-handling/221948/5 "2022-03-27T19:53:07Z")
Or just remove the link in the post, as it’s no longer relevant in any way whatsoever..
---
### Author:  [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2022, 4:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-image-handling/221948/6 "2022-03-28T16:39:55Z")
The link has been removed!