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Elliot Kirk
Former Employee
Oct 29, 2019
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Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files - Discussion

Hello everyone and thanks for your significant interest in our feedback item of “Provide run / open / save as options when downloading files”. This has been a very interesting problem to think throug...
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    i-am-kent
    Sep 08, 2020

    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.

     

     

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RobQ_MVP
Iron Contributor
Apr 16, 2020
Totally understand how the safe scanning services work, the fact is cyber essentials plus requires the browser to prompt the user whether they wish to run an executable regardless of whether its deemed to be safe or not.... Which new Edge doesn't do...
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HotCakeX
MVP
Apr 16, 2020
Oh well it looks like "cyber essentials plus" isn't a safe guideline.

I don't know what developers will do about it but I hope they don't change the way it is now because for the majority people that are not tech savvy like my family or friends, I would want them to go through some extra steps for opening a file that Edge and Windows Defender deem unsafe or malware. I mean that's logical.

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