Forum Discussion

Brass Contributor

May 08, 2019

Open Downloads

Why can't the user open the downloaded files like in Firefox, IE or the original Edge? It's really annoying to download every file and then delete it instead of just open it. Thanks

Elliot Kirk

Former Employee

Aug 22, 2019

Hi Shlomix, Thank you for taking the time to offer us your feedback. We are aware of this ask, and are still trying to determine its importance. We defaulted to the opposite behavior in the current version of Microsoft Edge, and received a lot of feedback that things disappeared after being downloaded. We are starting with this as the default as it allows users who get interrupted to get back to where they were without having to find and re-download content. We are certainly open to making changes, so please let us know how you tend to use downloads, so that we can best optimize for the scenario.

Thanks - Elliot

marvalar

Copper Contributor

Aug 22, 2019

Elliot Kirkthanks for joining the party and for the update.

I don't think we're discussing about default behaviour. In classic edge we have the possibility of "opening" a file instead of downloading it. When you open, the file is downloaded to a temporary folder, the file is opened, and when you close it, it gets deleted.

In the new edge we don't have this option, we can only "download" and we would very much appreciate to have the possibility to "open".

Kind regards