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MicrosoftDev channel update to 82.0.425.3 is live
hopmedic wrote:I wish Edge didn't require downloads of certain files. For example, when using work items in TFS from within Visual Studio 2019, if I want to open an attachment (i.e. Excel spreadsheet), Edge requires me to download and save it before I can open it. PDFs as well. Frequently PDFs must be downloaded instead of simply opening in the browser. I don't want to have to save every file I open.
Edge should open your PDFs in browser by default.
you can check in here and see if the option is correctly turned off: edge://settings/content/pdfDocuments
also check in your Windows 10 settings and make sure Edge is the default PDF viewer.
you can do it by right-clicking on a PDF file, selecting "open with.." and choose Edge and check the box where it says "always use this application".
Excel files need to be downloaded, there is no other way to modify them with installed Excel program on your computer. alternatively you can open Excel files in Excel online from OneDrive or upload your local files to Excel online.
MicrosoftHotCakeX I think hopmedic meant that we don't have the "Run" or "Open" option like Edge Legacy had, as discussed here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/provide-run-open-save-save-as-options-when-downloading-files/m-p/962775.
josh_bodner wrote:HotCakeX I think hopmedic meant that we don't have the "Run" or "Open" option like Edge Legacy had, as discussed here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/provide-run-open-save-save-as-options-when-downloading-files/m-p/962775.
About that, I was wondering what's the status of that feature? that topic was opened ~ 5 months ago, still on latest canary version I don't see any sign of that feature.
- josh_bodner
HotCakeX sorry, we probably should have been a little more explicit that starting these discussions about all these features in Edge Legacy that we haven't ported over yet wasn't also implying that we were immediately starting to work on them. We certainly haven't forgotten about it; it's just that sometimes, doing things right takes time, and these discussions are merely one part of our journey to gather user feedback and iterate on a solution. It doesn't help that downloads is a particularly complex feature with many possibilities for how we could achieve the many things users are asking for.
