Watch out Google Chrome: Microsoft Edge gets a ‘super drag and drop’ feature that actually lives up to the name as an impressive addition to the browser

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This should be an excellent timesaver for touchscreen users

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Microsoft is adding a ‘super drag and drop’ ability to the Edge browser, or at least the software giant is currently trying this in testing.

The functionality is present in the Canary and Dev preview versions of Edge, and it’s another way of quickly opening a link in a new tab (with a further twist added).

Elsewhere in the Canary version of Edge, a ‘preview link’ option has been added to the right-click menu for links. Selecting this pops up a small preview of the site you’ll be sent to, as you can see in the tweet below from well-known leaker Leopeva64.

Analysis: A touch of magic

The new supercharged drag and drop function is a laudable addition to Microsoft’s web browser as it’s always good to have more ways to do things, and it’ll be particularly handy for touchscreen laptop or tablet users wanting to quickly open links in a new tab. (Those users who aren’t mousing and therefore miss out on that shortcut of double-clicking the mouse wheel).

Naturally, the feature is still in testing – as are the mentioned link previews – but we can’t see any reason why Microsoft wouldn’t push these capabilities through to the release version of Edge. Fingers crossed, as ever, that nothing odd happens which might derail the progress of either feature.

Via Neowin

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Darren Allan

Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel - 'I Know What You Did Last Supper' - was published by Hachette UK in 2013).