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Chrome 90 has a cool trick that enables support for pasting files from your desktop right into web pages where they’re supported — like in Gmail.
That should shave off a few seconds’ work when sharing attachments in your email messages. Here’s how to enable the feature and use it:
And that’s it. As Android Police noted, Safari users already have access to a similar feature, and it’s hella handy, to the point where it makes you wonder why we didn’t have this in Chrome already.
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