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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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smalljoshua
Copper Contributor
Feb 10, 2021

NK_07 Completely agree with this. A common workflow for me is downloading 2-3 PDFs from our CRM and dragging them directly from the downloads bar into a draft email in Outlook. This new way of working really slows me down (enough to go back to Chrome fairly soon).

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jackson1510
Brass Contributor
Feb 10, 2021

smalljoshua Yes I would also love to see the ability to drag files from the download manager into other apps return!

I've also found that when I click on the downloads button, I'm not at the top of the list, and I need to scroll up a couple of lines before I'm at the top of the list of files, as below.

 

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    HotCakeX
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    Feb 11, 2021

    jackson1510 

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    jackson1510 wrote:

    smalljoshua Yes I would also love to see the ability to drag files from the download manager into other apps return!

    I've also found that when I click on the downloads button, I'm not at the top of the list, and I need to scroll up a couple of lines before I'm at the top of the list of files, as below.

     

    Hi,

    please submit this problem and drag and drop suggesting using the feedback button on Edge, I just did it from my browser 🙂

     

    press Edge's (...) menu => Help and feedback => Send feedback