Forum Discussion
Dev channel update to 78.0.244.0 is live
Downloading:
I've just been doing my first downloads in Edge Dev of a couple of large zip files. I do like the download bar at the bottom (though I know many people don't), and actually use extensions to provide something similar in Firefox and Google Chrome since they stopped having download bars/shelves of their own. However, there are two aspects I don't like of the current implementation in Edge Dev.
1 While the download is going on, on the download bar at the bottom, the amount downloaded and the full size plus the time to finish are shown, but the download speed is not. Of the various stats that could be there, the download speed is the one I want to see most - please consider redesigning so that the speed is shown.
2 To see what was shown on the actual Download page while the download was ongoing, I went to that and that DID show the speed. But opening the download page caused the download bar to close, and there's no apparent way to re-open it - which was hopeless when I wanted to go back to browsing but keep an eye on the ongoing download progress. Please keep the download bar showing at least on all other pages after the download page is opened - or have a control to re-open it after leaving the download page.
3 I suspect that some users will hate having the download bar at all, so you ought to also have an option to disable it. (As I presume that the extension I use to give a download bar in Google Chrome will also work in Edge Dev, I suppose I WOULD want an option to turn the native one off if you can't or won't change it as I'd like, so it wasn't in the way of using the extension!)