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William Devereux
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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...
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patrick69420
Copper Contributor
Apr 22, 2021

William Devereux Is there a flag to disable this? My laptop is slow and it takes 3 seconds to open the downloads hub. Please add a flag.

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Solero
Brass Contributor
Apr 23, 2021
patrick69420

Yes,
-disable-features=msDownloadsHub

I hope they do not remove the hidden option.
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    HotCakeX
    MVP
    Apr 23, 2021
    instead of old design I hope they improve the new experience, implement user feedback and remove old one completely to have a unified experience.
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      agcemo
      Brass Contributor
      Apr 29, 2021
      I just hope they put a flag so you can be happy with this "thing" and the rest of us can be happy with what we need and want.

      If I can't disable it, then I will go back to Chrome. That simple.
      • Solero's avatar
        Solero
        Brass Contributor
        Apr 29, 2021

        It appears they in the last few builds they removed even the flag/option that would allow falling back to the classic download experience.

        I am moving back to Vivaldi. Also Chrome based.
        A browser the respects and listens to its users.

        https://vivaldi.com/

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