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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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Graham-STMC
Steel Contributor
Jan 06, 2021

You can turn it off yourself.

Click ... - SETTINGS - DOWNLOADS and make your choices there.

 

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DNova
Copper Contributor
Jan 24, 2021

I have tired both settings repeatedly over the past few months and neither option gets me back to the way it used to behave.

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