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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...

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.

GraniteStateColin

Iron Contributor

Sep 11, 2020

the-truth-of_Billie, whatever you're describing doesn't sound like it has anything to do with Edge. It sounds like you have fouled the permissions on your directories and Edge is also being affected by those changes.

the-truth-of_Billie

Copper Contributor

Sep 11, 2020

i-am-kent seems to agree with me, and it is a time consuming and cumbersome way of saving files compotes to other browsers. Yes I have udes the roundabout way, which suddenly deemoed to work after my complaint.
Instead of ging ho blindly defensief yourself and childishly blaming the other party, maybe you should have Some zelf critism and try to get the app up to the level of the better browsers

GraniteStateColin
Iron Contributor
Sep 13, 2020
the-truth-of_Billie, was that to me? I don't work for Microsoft. Just a fan of Edge and very glad they've added this improvement. HUGE time saver for me. Sorry, I couldn't follow your post, just because of typos. Happy to discuss further if you could clarify your post.