Skydrive drag and drop with Firefox

16 Aug, 2007  Windows Live  Tweet This Post! | Email Post

Does not work. If you have signed up for Skydrive, one of the coolest feature is drag and drop.

To use drag and drop, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in to Windows Live SkyDrive Beta with your Windows Live ID (The user name and password that you use to sign in to any Windows Live, MSN, or Office Live sites and services. If you have a Passport Network, Hotmail, or Messenger account, you can use it as your Windows Live ID.) .
  2. Navigate to the folder that you want to add files to.
  3. Click Add files.
  4. Near the bottom of the page, click Install this upload tool.
  5. If you see a yellow bar at the top of your browser, click it, click Install ActiveX Control, and then click Install.
  6. On your computer, navigate to the location of the file that you want to add.
  7. Select your file, and then drag it to the Drag files here to upload them box.
  8. Click Upload.
Notes
  • To install the ActiveX control, your operating system must have Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.
  • To install the ActiveX control, your browser must be Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, or later.
  • You can upload multiple files at once.

This morning, I launched firefox to upload files and at the same time test this drag and drop feature. It just does not give you an option to drag and drop.

Drag and drop does not work with firefox.

You will have to use internet explorer to drag and drop your files onto your SkyDrive.

Images embedded from SkyDrive

 

8 Comments so far »

  1. University Update - Firefox - Skydrive drag and drop with Firefox said,

    Wrote on August 16, 2007 @ 9:46 am

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  4. Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat :: Online Storage? Hardly! said,

    Wrote on August 17, 2007 @ 2:00 am

    [...] was the other big announcement this week. It offers “drag and drop” uploads, but only from within Internet Explorer. Although the development team thought a real drive mapping in Windows would be a good idea [...]

  5. Vaibhav said,

    Wrote on August 17, 2007 @ 2:31 am

    Its good, nice post. Thanx for sharing.

  6. Edward Prislac said,

    Wrote on November 3, 2008 @ 3:13 pm

    Of course it doesn’t work- it’s reliant on an Active X control; As Active X is an IE-exclusive framework, no Active X control will work with any browser other than IE.

  7. Andrew said,

    Wrote on January 15, 2009 @ 10:45 am

    There’s a workaround.
    Use the IETab addon in Firefox.
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

    It renders pages using the IE engine.

  8. James said,

    Wrote on March 28, 2009 @ 12:01 am

    Yes, as Andrew said, use IETab. It’s the perfect addon for any site that requires IE (including NetFlix’s Watch Instantly).

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