Ability to Drag links from the Description area of a task into a new browser

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Product: Browser App

Issue: Not being able to click, hold, and drag a URL from the Description area to a new browser window.

Scenario: I often receive tasks in Asana with multiple URLs to open, and I usually want to open all of them in the same new browser window. I find it annoying to click a URL, have it open in a new tab, go back to the tab with the task and repeat for the others. Just as aggravating is having to copy a URL and paste it in the window I want it open in.

Solution: Allow URLs in the description to be dragged like they are on typical webpages. I see there are JS events that handle “drag” events to initiate the editor. There could be a rule update to recognize a link being dragged and allow the native browser functionality.

Thanks!

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Note: Not a solution but marked as such to elevate a key reply

Instead of just clicking the link, hold Ctrl or Cmd down while you click the link; usually a new tab will open with the link loaded there, but you will not be taken there, so you can click several links in your Asana tab in rapid succession, then visit each when ready.

Thanks,

Larry

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True that is better than being jumped to a window. Would be nicer to be able to pull that link into a window I already have open though.

And by quickly opening in successive new tabs I have then select all those tabs and drag away to a new window. Better than nothing, just not optimal.

Thanks!

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