Forum Discussion
Announcing the Open/Save as/Save and Delete prompts for downloads!
- Oct 12, 2020
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.
I have been trying to get used to this feature for awhile now, but to me, this only added a problem instead of created a solution. I can't tell you the number of times I click a link three or four times trying to figure out why "nothing is happening" only to discover an un-noticable bar has appeared at the bottom of the screen which now has my download in it three or four times. Now I have to cancel all the duplicate downloads and still have to click the three dots next to one of them to get the Save As dialog to appear so I can save the file. Even if I did get used to this and look for the bar at the bottom of the screen when nothing happened after clicking the link, Microsoft has still created an extra step where I need to click the three dots and choose Save to get the Save As dialog box that I wanted in the first place. The person behind me has this exact problem as well so I know I'm not the only one who hates this new behavior in Edge Chromium.
People that had their browser configured to bring up the Save As dialog all the time did that for a reason. Because they ALWAYS want to choose where to save the file and the NEVER want the file to Open in their browser. Why did Microsoft mess with something that was doing exactly what people wanted? PLEASE put it back to the old behavior where the Save As dialog box comes up the first time I click the file to download. The bar appearing at the bottom is completely unnecessary, just present the user with the Save As dialog. i-am-kent
You can turn it off yourself.
Click ... - SETTINGS - DOWNLOADS and make your choices there.
- DNovaJan 24, 2021Copper Contributor
I have tired both settings repeatedly over the past few months and neither option gets me back to the way it used to behave.