No, as Windows is programmed today, you can't.

The issue here is that there's a basic misunderstanding in your question. The dialogue you see on Android is given by the operating system, not by the browser. You can use a different browser on Android, and you'll get the same dialogue. Also, pressing on "Camera", the phone's camera app will open (the App is different on any phone, depending on your hardware and OEM) so you can take the picture, and the Android OS will pass this picture directly to the browser. It's the way the Android OS was programmed to allow you to do this. In fact, you get similar dialogues with multiple choice of action in various situations, such as when sharing content from any app, or when attaching a file to an email.

Windows, on the other hand, always presents you with an Explorer dialogue. Period. This is a different kind of approach underlying the whole OS, independently of the application you're using. Same thing happens if you want to send an attachment to an email: Explorer dialogue again.

It is not possible to change this with a browser plugin. A html <input> tag will always ask for a user action, and for security reasons such action is handled by the OS: the browser itself is not allowed to access your personal files. It is you as a user which has to "tell" the OS: "please hand over this private file of mine to the browser". Even in Android, the same thing happens: it is you as a user which tells the OS: "let's use the camera for this". The Chrome browser just receives the file which the OS is passing to it.

A browser plugin will never be allowed to hijack such an action, as it would be a major security issue.

So, (except for someone programming an ugly hack) for the moment, this is not possible in Windows. It could be however that some day - at the discretion of Microsoft - in Windows 11 such a feature will be added, as the OS is continuing to adapt to various usage scenarios.

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Select the pictures you wish to upload. Drag and drop the selected pictures into the Google Drive interface. The pictures will begin uploading to Google Drive. To save pictures from Chrome to Google Drive, use these instructions:
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No, as Windows is programmed today, you can't.

The issue here is that there's a basic misunderstanding in your question. The dialogue you see on Android is given by the operating system, not by the browser. You can use a different browser on Android, and you'll get the same dialogue. Also, pressing on "Camera", the phone's camera app will open (the App is different on any phone, depending on your hardware and OEM) so you can take the picture, and the Android OS will pass this picture directly to the browser. It's the way the Android OS was programmed to allow you to do this. In fact, you get similar dialogues with multiple choice of action in various situations, such as when sharing content from any app, or when attaching a file to an email.

Windows, on the other hand, always presents you with an Explorer dialogue. Period. This is a different kind of approach underlying the whole OS, independently of the application you're using. Same thing happens if you want to send an attachment to an email: Explorer dialogue again.

It is not possible to change this with a browser plugin. A html <input> tag will always ask for a user action, and for security reasons such action is handled by the OS: the browser itself is not allowed to access your personal files. It is you as a user which has to "tell" the OS: "please hand over this private file of mine to the browser". Even in Android, the same thing happens: it is you as a user which tells the OS: "let's use the camera for this". The Chrome browser just receives the file which the OS is passing to it.

A browser plugin will never be allowed to hijack such an action, as it would be a major security issue.

So, (except for someone programming an ugly hack) for the moment, this is not possible in Windows. It could be however that some day - at the discretion of Microsoft - in Windows 11 such a feature will be added, as the OS is continuing to adapt to various usage scenarios.

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What you are asking for is covered by the HTML Media Capture standard from 2018.

This standard is better described in this link, with even a demonstration image that seems to point to an Apple desktop:

The new standard is an evolution of the <input> tag on the PC, currently only used for uploading files.

The new HTML <input> tag may either select a file of a certain type, or capture data from the matching device. This is done by adding HTML attributes on the <input> tag.

One useful attribute here is capture:

The capture attribute specifies that, optionally, a new file should be captured, and which device should be used to capture that new media of a type defined by the accept attribute.

The accept attribute is defined as:

The accept attribute takes as its value a comma-separated list of one or more file types, or unique file type specifiers, describing which file types to allow.

Here is an example of HTML code that uses these attributes:

<p>
  <label for="soundFile">What does your voice sound like?:</label>
  <input type="file" id="soundFile" capture="user" accept="audio/*">
</p>
<p>
  <label for="videoFile">Upload a video:</label>
  <input type="file" id="videoFile" capture="environment" accept="video/*">
</p>
<p>
  <label for="imageFile">Upload a photo of yourself:</label>
  <input type="file" id="imageFile" capture="user" accept="image/*">
</p>

If the HTML file does not use these attributes, then all it can do is select a file from disk, created in advance by, for example, the camera app.

These tags will let you record when they will be correctly implemented by Chrome. Unfortunately, at the moment they do not work on the desktop. Already working on Android Chrome, I hope that it's only a matter of time for it to arrive on the desktop.

Currently a lot of JavaScript is required for media capture, as can be seen in this example.

You need to wait for the Chrome developers to implement them for the desktop - we can't do that.

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February 14, 2023 -

Hi, I often have this workflow when I need to upload a picture to some forums, ads listing websites, administration websites (I am using Windows):

  1. I have a picture open in photoshop with a selection

  2. Control+Shift+C to copy the selection to clipboard

  3. File -> New

  4. Paste

  5. Save

  6. Browse to some temporary location

  7. Press the upload button on the web form

  8. Go to the previous temporary location

  9. Select the file

Is there any Chrome plugin to allow to directly upload from clipboard instead of always having to select a file?

I know some modern websites, like Reddit, allows to paste an image without having to upload it from your computer hard-drive.

BUT a lot of websites like forums, ad listing websites and administrative websites, only allows to insert an image via the traditional upload process from your computer hard-drive. So to speed up I am wondering if an extension able to mimic this process exist. Regards

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We were able to directly upload before and suddenly we have been getting an error in Google Chrome: "The photo upload encountered a problem. Please try uploading the photo again, or select a different image file, before submitting the document." If we save the same image to a drive on the computer, it uploads fine, but we want to be able to directly upload images from the iPad to the application in Google Chrome.
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September 5, 2018 - I’ve been avoiding chrome for a long time cause I don’t particularly like google at all. But his is very very tempting. You temptress. ... I've been using FireFox for some time, but I guess I will make my return. ... but then I'd have to use Chrome and...yeah nope. Good thing there's add-ons for this already on FF anyway ... See my response here: https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/9d6i2s/you_can_now_upload_your_own_images_in_the_new/e5g323z