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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.
- The new flyout hopefully will take care of it.
- https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/l4ysju/new_option_in_the_downloads_section/,
Like this flyout, I realy love it- These fundamental changes render some 3rd party extensions made for Chrome, unusable on Edge but that's fine, extension developers can update their extensions to make it compatible again.
HotCakeX Hi, I hope it does too. Could we see screenshots and/or a description of how this will fix this for us who prefer the old way (the way Chromium handles)? I'd rather not try Edge Stable again until I know the problem's fixed.
Thanks!
- "Hi, I hope it does too. Could we see screenshots and/or a description of how this will fix this for us who prefer the old way (the way Chromium handles)? I'd rather not try Edge Stable again until I know the problem's fixed.
Thanks!"
i don't think it will fix that problem you described, but I'm assuming, just like the favorites and history flyouts, there will soon be a new article talking about the new downloads flyout/sidebar.
in that, again there are 2 buttons shown by default and 2 are hidden under (...) button.
showing all 4 of them by default, in my opinion, would be a step in the right direction, and in line with what you want, to have less clicks.
- What new flyout??
- The new downloads flyout that's in controlled rollout
