Google Chrome's drag drop feature stopped working
I am not able to drag & drop anything into google chrome. For instance, I was able to add gmail attachments using drag & drop until yesterday but today it does not seem to work. Basically when I drag & drop anything onto chrome (not necessarily gmail) I see the 🛇 sign. Version of chrome is "46.0.2490.80 m" and I tried cleaning cahce, deleting temporary files, disabling touch features of chrome, re-installing chrome, uninstalling Avira (browser security), use different mouse, restarting Windows etc. BTW, Drag drop feature of IE and Firefox works just as expected. Actually it was working fine with chrome until yesterday. I tried drag & drop on another PC with very same version of chrome, it just works fine.
I suppose it is not about chrome but about Windows. What may be wrong with my system?
Solution 1:
Somehow I set chrome.exe as "Run as administrator" from "Right Click Shortcut -> Properties -> Compatibility". Unchecking this solved the problem.
Solution 2:
- Point Chrome to URL: chrome://flags
- DISABLE: "Enable touch events"
- DISABLE: "Enable touch initiated drag and drop"
- Relaunch chrome
Source: https://github.com/dbushell/Nestable/issues/92
It fixed this issue for me.
Solution 3:
You can try exiting and restarting Chrome. That just fixed it for me. (Maybe my Chrome instance had started as Administrator, but I don't know how/why that would have happened.)