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William Devereux
Microsoft
MicrosoftIntroducing the new downloads experience
The new Microsoft Edge recently turned one year old, over the last year we’ve heard your feedback about the downloads experience. While there’s a lot you liked, a common criticism was that it was oft...
ttsoldier wrote:William Devereux Is it possible to go back to the old experience? With this new experience I cannot drag files into applications for easy upload.
Why not add drag and drop to the new flyout instead of going back to the old design?
I love the new design and the way I see it, adding drag and drop feature will solve your problem.
HotCakeX Sure that's an option as well. But I need drag and drop access during my daily tasks. I'm sure it's not something that they can add over night. I too, love the new layot but it's unfortunately it's not practical for me in it's current state 😞
- I understand, please make sure to submit a feedback about this using feedback button on Edge
I was able to disable it by adding this at the end of Edge target
-disable-features=msDownloadsHub- I did it but the bar was not showing.
I disable edge at windows start and then it worked like a charm.
I DISLIKE very much the new "download thing"
Is not what I need. I HATE IT.
I don't care if the old bar it's 3000 years old.
For me, if there is not an option to permanently disable this, it will be a "go back to chrome" feature.- I just cant understand why you keep saying the new "download flyout system" is better than the old one, how a new download system having less features than the old one ( which was perfect ) could be better ? Why making a new flyout system without a highly used function like drag and drop ? you literally need to do more steps to moving a file than before. The position of the new flyout system ocupprs more from the page you are viewing than the old one and you gonna loose a part of the view from the page. Seems like you are the only one who dont like the old download bar.
There is no problem if a feature or a system is "too much old" if he do their job properly. And of course the old download bar do the job better than the new one, its not a problem the "flyout system be the future", but you dont need to use this if the user experience would be a downgrade.
The best example is the windows start menu, they tried to remove it on Windows 8 and everyone disagreed, even if the Start Menu is "OLD", its still more useful than the Windows 8 version, so they bringed it back.
As we can see on comments, there is more people who disliked the new system. Why just not make possible to switch to the old one ? its almost the same of the "new history experience" why cannot make possible to make a simple feature which gonna be liked for both sides? Just make possible switch between then.
