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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.
Elliot Kirk I would also add two more items:
1. make the download prompt significantly bigger, like it is on legacy Edge, and ideally have a pinnable list of downloads in progress (like legacy Edge)..... the current strip of downloads is much much too small on HiDPI screens - to the level that it is really easy to completely miss that anything is being downloaded!
2. provide more options and an easier interface (maybe consistent with any new download options) for when a file is identified as potentially unsafe as it has not been downloaded enough - as a musician, I find many of the sites with plugins and music related software get picked up as potentially unsafe, and the reporting process does not seem to do anything (at least not yet). having the ability to "trust" a website in terms if reputation (still scanning for viruses, etc.) would be a sensible addition to this process - maybe even feeding this back to MS to go into the whole process of deciding whether or not files on a website, and the website as a whole, are to be marked as untrusted.