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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.
Legacy Edge works perfectly for me.
I'm a developer and spend a lot of time downloading docs that I only want to view once - when using chrome or new edge my downloads folder rapidly gets cluttered and I then can't find the things I want to keep.
Lots of other files I only want to view once, e.g. Newsletters from son's school (docx for some reason) or run once (installers) and most of the rest, I just want to save to downloads. One extra click in these cases is well worth it to be able to find it without all the clutter chrome gives me.
Occasionally, it's really nice to just put a file where I need it rather than save to downloads, open downloads, select file, cut, navigate to folder I want it in, paste, close explorer.
Also I really HATE the chrome ui where it takes up a big chunk of my screen space with that ugly bar. Old Edge's overlay was much more elegant.
The use case of downloading lots of files that I want to keep just doesn't ever happen for me. The services where I do this all zip the files for me. If they didn't, I just wouldn't use them. The problem the default ui in chrome is trying to solve is irrelevant to me, which is whyi like the option in classic edge to switch to a better mode.