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i-am-kent
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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's avatar
    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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roirraWedorehT
Brass Contributor
Nov 12, 2020
I have been really liking Edge since before it went stable, and I wondered when this sudden, unexpected, and unwanted behavior had started. Just like other users have expressed, I'd like to go back to that when I have Edge set to prompt where I'd like to save a file every time, for me not to have to go through extra clicks on each and every file download button at the bottom to bring up the file/folder dialog for where to save as. Also just as other users mentioned, Save As not remembering the most recent location that I saved to is unwanted behavior. There was nothing wrong with the way it was before. Maybe some people prefer the new/classic Edge way for downloads, but there are evidently a bunch of us who don't. I may have to do all my downloading in the meantime via another one of the web browsers I have installed. Please add the old option back.
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    GraniteStateColin
    Steel Contributor
    Nov 13, 2020

    roirraWedorehT, just turn off the prompt in Settings (set it back to default), and voilĂ , no extra clicks. The "extra" clicks are only needed if you have already changed the default in Settings to prompt you for what to do when clicking to download a file. In that case, Chromium Edge, prior to this much needed feature finally being added, was MISSING the basic capability that has been available since the early days of IE and in Legacy Edge, basically for longer than many people have been using the Internet: the ability to Open or Run a file without having to go through all the steps associated with saving it first and then having to manually go back and delete it later. 

     

    On the other hand, I think there is universal agreement with you that it should remember the last saved location. I haven't heard anyone defend that it forgets that between saves. That just seems like a bug and I expect it will be fixed shortly.

    • roirraWedorehT's avatar
      roirraWedorehT
      Brass Contributor
      Nov 13, 2020

      GraniteStateColin Thanks for your reply.  Like the other users who complained about this new "feature", I still want to choose where I save a download on a file by file basis, so I want the dialog that use to pop up prompting me for where to save, for every single file.  I just confirmed that if I disable the "Ask me what to do with each download" setting that it automatically saves the file in my default Download location, which is not what I want.

       

      I don't mind that the new feature is available to others who want it - I just don't need it and I prefer the way it was, so there should be a way to enable an immediate save as dialog instead of a prompt at the bottom of the screen that for each and every download I have to click "Save As", so more mouse movement and an extra click each time.

       

      This is annoying enough that I'm going to go back to using Chrome and I'll check back in on Edge every great once in a while to see if there's a way to enable the old way.

      • HotCakeX's avatar
        HotCakeX
        MVP
        Nov 13, 2020
        It is like it was. just has more options.
        1. if you have to download lots of files one after another, then turn this off:
        edge://settings/downloads

        2. if you download files casually then keep it open.

        it's actually as simple as that.

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