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Microsoft

Feb 02, 2021

Introducing 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...

sellorio

Copper Contributor

Apr 19, 2021

Please for the love of god just add a setting to disable this. The problem with the ribbon at the bottom was that you forced people who choose where to download each time to click an extra button each time. Please change that too!!!! If I want to pick where to download each time, just pop up the file save dialog like Chrome does and like you used to. Why do we need to inject extra clicks to the user experience???? I hate this feature so much!!

You say "a common criticism" but ignore the proportion of normal users that never complained about this. There now I have given you some real user feedback that everyone wants because why would anyone want to click a download link and then Save As to get the file save dialog every friggen time?!

Wyatt C Jackson

Brass Contributor

Apr 19, 2021

As I remember, there was an option to customize that behavior.

sellorio
Copper Contributor
Apr 19, 2021
Wyatt C Jackson I searched many times in both settings and flags and of course online. I couldn't find any way to avoid the delay and click each time I want to download something. Kinda feels like users like me are getting punished for not wanting to dump all our downloads in a downloads folder.
- HotCakeX
  MVP
  Apr 20, 2021
  sellorio
  
  They need to show all 3 options, Open, Save, Save as by default, without hiding any of them. it will save clicks and time. that's the best design. but Edge developers never responded about this suggestion.
  William Devereux
  - sellorio
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 20, 2021
    HotCakeX If the download isn't happening immediately when clicking the link, the battle is lost. Clicking Open/Save/SaveAs is inconvenient and annoying. I understand that the Open (i.e. temporary download) is a useful feature but I use it so rarely that it should just become an option that, when disabled, skips the extra button click. Or perhaps a redesign in which the file can get marked as temporary some other way instead of delaying the download and requiring an extra click.