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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 features from Microsoft Edge legacy. One of those items is a feature asking users if they want to Open, Save As, Save, or Cancel a download. This week, we're excited to announce that this setting is now available in our Dev and Canary channels! We expect all builds with version >= 87.0.629.0 to have this feature.
To enable it, navigate to edge://settings/downloads and toggle on, "Ask me what to do with each download." Once you download a file after enabling that setting, you will see options to:
- Open the file, which downloads it to a temporary folder and opens the file. This temporary folder will attempt to clear itself whenever you start a new browser session
- Save as, which opens the file explorer, allowing you to rename and choose where the file is saved
- Save the file, located under the ... button, which saves the file to your default downloads folder (you can also change this on the Downloads settings page)
- Cancel the file download entirely, this is also located under the ... button
Another feature we're adding is the ability to delete downloads directly from the browser itself. If you head to the Downloads page, you can now right-click on a downloaded item (or the ... menu for the item in the download shelf/bar) and select "Delete file." Once you do this, the file will be deleted from your computer. We hope that this will help users who like to download files automatically while still keeping their downloads folder clean.
We encourage you to give these changes a try! Have a suggestion on how to improve these new download features? Navigate to the browser's ... menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback to let us know your thoughts.
- The Microsoft Edge Product Team
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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i-am-kent I agree with what most comments say, this new update has destroyed my workflow I am forced to use FDM now because the new update slows me down a lot and I can't have that. If the edge team does not give us at least and option for the old way I might find myself migrating back to chrome no matter how much I like Edge.
i-am-kent. THANK YOU!! I love this addition. This massively improves my workflow. I can finally stop opening IE when I know I'll be performing a lot of file downloads (following new Edge replacing Legacy Edge and taking away this capability from Edge). Edge is now my hands-down favorite browser with virtually no need for any others. (Now looking forward to the return of web page inking and the upcoming Vertical Tabs).
However, I do agree with the issue raised by many here that the Save As option ought to default to the last saved location, not the Downloads folder.
This is as far as it gets, not the nice graphics you show !!!
Yes just had the last very slow system & Edge idate.
- I don't see what you are showing ... fiction
This is still an issue, both in the newest full developer's Edge as in the standard failed browser
NOT FIXED!!!
Will only download to the greyed-out folder in Settings even when I select
'ask me first ' .... etc.!
If I try to change the location Microsuck informs me that "there is no such file .. etc. ...,"
After that when I try to move the file, M states that I don't have permission, even though I am an administrator.
Don't tell me how to get around this, because it doesn't work it's a BBAD PROGRAMMING BUG!
Try Googling this problem and you'll see all who have problems with this issue.
Btw Chrome works perfectly with downloads, if you are now indeed scripting in Chrome OS how the hell did you manage to mess up this feature?
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.
- 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
i-am-kent unfortunately, you totally killed remembering the last save folder. Let's say I want to save five files into the non-default folder. If I click Save as, I get the 'save' dialog with the default folder. If I click Save, I save to the default folder automatically.
What you could have done is:
Save - default folder
Save as - last saved folder
As for now, I had to turn off the download prompts, as they provide very little benefit. Instead, they slow down downloading small files that get completely downloaded even before you click anything.
Right now if I have to save a lot of files from a site (like University Canvas) each time I pick Save As it resets the folder to the default save folder instead of the last used folder; this results in a lot of movement through the file manager to get to the specific folder for each and every file.
As a work around I am changing the default save folder to the specific folder I want to download multiple files to and then changing it back.
illtechthatMicrosoft
Thanks for the team's work on this, but I have to agree with the other poster this has just slowed down my workflow a lot!
Expected behavior: With the "always ask me where to save.." option when I download something I am prompted with a Windows Explorer window to select the download location. I also have a one click option to save in default location (remembered per website).
Actual behavior: Takes an extra unnecessary button click to download the file and an extra unnecessary click to save the file to default location.
This is especially annoying when saving multiple files from websites that I want to rename before saving.
I agree with Reverend EvvL X, azuravian, acho90 , IshaiH Please consider reverting to the previous popup or having an extra option "bypass extra download prompt before showing save as window"
Created an account to post this because this is the first major change that is annoying enough that I would switch back to Chrome if it's not reverted.
Thank you.
- it should look like in legacy edge or IE, not like this chrome-themed subproduct!
why you leaving so many space in that useless line? why not remove it? just name of the file and option, leave all other space to sites, not the white/gray bar!
