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i-am-kent
Former Employee
Sep 08, 2020
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Announcing the Open/Save as/Save and Delete prompts for downloads!

Update: Open/SaveAs is now available on Edge Stable ( version >= 86.0.622.38)   Greetings, Microsoft Edge Insiders!    As a part of our top feedback, we have been looking at implementing feat...
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    PathogenDavid
    Oct 12, 2020

    GraniteStateColin 

    There is absolutely an extra click after this change.

     

    Before: Click link > Change folder if needed > Save

    Now: Click link > Click Save As > Change folder if needed > Save

     

    Additionally that extra click happens at the bottom of the screen (whereas the file browse dialog appears in the middle of the screen), so that extra click is probably far from where your mouse cursor was.

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GraniteStateColin
Iron Contributor
Sep 11, 2020

i-am-kent. THANK YOU!! I love this addition. This massively improves my workflow. I can finally stop opening IE when I know I'll be performing a lot of file downloads (following new Edge replacing Legacy Edge and taking away this capability from Edge). Edge is now my hands-down favorite browser with virtually no need for any others. (Now looking forward to the return of web page inking and the upcoming Vertical Tabs).

 

However, I do agree with the issue raised by many here that the Save As option ought to default to the last saved location, not the Downloads folder. 

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