Forum Discussion
Announcing the Open/Save as/Save and Delete prompts for downloads!
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.
Thanks for implementing this feature. Loved it for opening PDF and other document files temporarily. However, there is one thing that I would like to see changed about it. Whenever, you click "Save As" the file explorer now always opens to the default download path (usually C:\User\Downloads). I find this a bit annoying since there are times where I have a bunch of separate files I want to download that I want to put in a different folder (eg. folder on the Desktop). That means that every time I click "Save As", I have to navigate to that Desktop folder, which is a pain. I would have preferred the old way of how downloads were handled - meaning the "Save As" button opens to the last folder that you saved a download in.
So the workflow would be: Download a file -> click "Save As" -> File Explorer opens to "Downloads" -> I navigate to my folder on the Desktop -> Save the file in that folder -> I download another file -> Click "Save As" -> File Explorer opens to THE FOLDER ON THE DESKTOP -> I save the file on that Desktop folder
If you guys could modify the behaviour to this (or let the user choose the behaviour), that'd be great.
jchow It might be a nice idea to always open the last location a file downloaded to when you clicked 'Save as', but doesn't that risk that sometimes you might inadvertently lose a file you have downloaded? If this is the case.
Something I am missing is that the 'Downloads' option no longer shows the location of where files have been downloaded to.
In Classic Edge this didn't matter too much because the nice little 'Downloads' tab was incorporated into the Favourites and Reading List button, but hunting for where files have been downloaded to in Chromium Edge takes at least two more clicks and becomes cumbersome.
As shown in the attached screenshot on a mac, the current 'Downloads' button from the Settings and more button no longer shows WHERE the item is kept - it just provides a link to 'show in finder' (or File Explorer on Windows 10)
