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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.
Apologies for the late response. I believe that you are heading in the right direction, especially with numbers 1 and 3. What I believe that most of us want is the option to choose what to do with each file before we download it, instead of being forced to have a File Explorer window prompt us where to save the file each time, or just have it saved it to the default downloads folder. The open/run options are definitely necessary, as almost all of the files I download I will just be deleting after viewing them. The system old Edge used was great, and I am glad that you are looking into changing the downloads system from the Chrome style that I find so annoying. I actually created another discussion about this before I realized that this one was here, sorry. Here is the link: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/download-method-suggestions/m-p/1235825
The download method is pretty much the only thing that I dislike about the new Edge, everything else it great. Thanks for listening to all of out feedback.