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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...
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 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.- Spoiler
DDemK wrote:
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.Like I said earlier, this is not the final form, not even available in Edge stable, only available in insider channels.
the only missing feature is drag and drop functionality, that's it, other than that it is better than the old downloads bar that occupied screen real estate due to bad user interface.
if you want drag and drop functionality, make sure to use feedback button on Edge to request that. devs will see how many people request something and then act upon it.
how does it exactly occupy more space?
that is literally only a small button on the toolbar, not even visible all the time, it can appear when a download is active and then disappear.
also you don't see the flyout at all times, only when you click on it, and you can make it appear/disappear with a click/tap.
unlike the old downloads bar, where if you clicked on X to close it, you couldn't make it appear again and you had to switch to a full screen tab to manage your downloads, very inconvenient.
and no I'm Not the only person who likes the new flyout system.
- What I dislike more, is the "my way or the high way" download feature.
The size of the bar is not of my liking, neither the position of it.
the download order is also not of my linking.
I don't like it. If there were an option to revert to the old history page, I would love that too.- or put a toggle in settings. There a lot of chrome based browsers, it's easy to export bookmarks and history. When they make changes, they should mindful of user retention. Give the user choices or they will flee and may never come back.
