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Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files - Discussion
Hello everyone,
Thanks so much for all the feedback provided regarding Open/SaveAs. We are now introducing an option for users using Edge version 87.0.629.0 and above to choose, for each download, whether they want to Open, Save As, Save, or Cancel a download. To enable this option, navigate to edge://settings/downloads and enable, "Ask me what to do with each download." Once you download a file after enabling that setting, you will have the option to Open, Save As, Save, or Cancel it. If you choose to open it directly, it will be downloaded to a temporary folder.
Additionally, we have exposed an option to directly delete downloaded files from your computer, in the browser so that you can easily clean up after downloading your files without leaving the browser.
To learn more about these features, please check out our post.
Having an option to open, save and run downloads is simple and very useful. Because having programs download right away is not good, for example some websites automatically try to download files. But if there is an option for what to do with the download, the user can then stop it. And if many files are downloaded by the user, and the user wants to save them in different places. It is not ideal to go to setting and change the save location. By having those options of open, save and run the user doesn't even have to save the item to their computer.