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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.
I do not know how about you guys. I am tired with Microsoft and this discussion.
I will use classic Edge as long as it is possible. I am tired to defend great features that exists there now.
I love side tabs, download question popup, reading list, favorites panel, inking with great support of Microsoft Surface Pen, minimalistic design, easy to use, sync with my iPhone, export PDF doc with ink, stability, minimum memory consumption, fast, reading mode for the websites, Microsoft translation plugin which is smart and fast, ask Cortana build-in, read aloud that is not buggy and brilliant web debugging and inspecting tools that been in Internet Explorer and Edge for ages. The emulation mode that I enables me to see how website behave on different devices.
I do not see any benefit in new Edge except one "the new privacy settings and control over the cookies". I do not care about any other new feature introduced in new Edge. It is being crazy unstable, unfriendly, hard to use (especially favorites), buggy sync process.
My family that I recommend to switch to new Edge is endless complaining. Unfortunately they are not tech enough to report it to Microsoft. Most of the users are not interested in giving opinions. They use browser as a tool not as a product. It is like a screwdriver to them. It have to work and end of sentence.
Fully agree with all you've said. Since Microsoft introduced the move to Chromium, the new browser is still broken in many ways and inferior to the proper Edge. I do not recommend using it in professional environments and a lot of companies I support or get involved with are not going to implement it, even moving away back to the classic Edge as long as it works. Surprisingly many work force are against the new Edge, as it breaks SharePoint sites, intranet resources and a whole lot of professional tools used on daily basis.
PeteMSTechCom, I have not observed that among IT staffs with any companies I work. Nor can I think of any professional features that are not improved in the new Edge (though I would acknowledge there may be some obscure features where that's possible). Single sign-on, support for profiles, better support for old IE-only sites, better overall web page compatibility -- those are all factors that have already driven all companies I see from Legacy Edge (or even holding out on IE) to new Edge.
More interesting for me has been the number of sites already moving from Chrome to Edge. I have seen several companies who wouldn't support old Edge, because it was less compatible with third-party sites than Chrome and didn't work with their internal sites that required IE. So they were previously on Chrome for most things, and IE when needed. They are now moving from Chrome to Edge. These are mostly MS shops (I'm sure very few on the Google ecosystem are doing this), but that's a great sign for MS that they're new Edge is helping tighten their relationships with many of their large clients.
Lastly, as an individual user, I miss this Run/Open feature a lot and the Inking directly on web pages (a little), but other than that (and even in spite of those deficiencies), I much prefer the new Edge for some of the same reasons as the businesses like Profiles (I don't know how I lived without these before) and the 100% web compatibility (so nice to no longer wonder if a site looks wrong because I'm in Edge), but also for more personal reasons: the new Collections feature is really handy for shopping (and will be even more useful when travel resumes after COVID-19) and access to any extension I want and better extension support.
My experience is exactly the opposite. Daily struggle with few users who are now on Edge Chromium or even worse still on Google Chrome facing a host of different issues. Starting with lot of MS Office online services, in particular SharePoint, through various intranet sites, web apps, business banking, SAP web apps, engineering rendering sites, high resolution internal production streaming, favourites storage, reading clipboard, amount of RAM & CPU utilised, etc. Strange enough, the combo Edge Classic and IE are going strong. Many users happy to go back. Seamless profile and favourites sync, SSO, integration between Edge and UWP apps and so on. Amazing touch & pen features and support on Surface devices, where the new Edge fails short and Chrome or Firefox are completely useless.
But the best of all is the way Edge Classic and all other UWP based browsers and apps instantly suspend on minimising to task bar and resume when required. Myself working across several different remote support and management systems, remote access, tenants, domains, web apps, etc. it's simply indispensable. Apart from Edge Classic I use few other UWP browsers from MS Store, once minimised, they only consume a tiny fraction of RAM & CPU, maintaining notifications in the background, same with all other UWP apps. Even MS Teams works way better in an UWP browser as web app than its native horrible resource hogging chromium based app. I tried to do the same performing the same tasks using the new Edge Chromium and it turned out to be impossible. The amount of RAM & CPU it needs is awful, minimising it to task bar doesn't change anything, running few different chromium based browsers plus 4-5 instances of native MS Teams kills even the latest Surface Book. Few more extensions cannot compensate the lack of usability in a professional environment.
- This is what M$ do best! They REMOVE features with every new product.
- This happened with Skype, as soon as M$ bought it they removed half of the functionalities, introduced enormously stupid UI for mobile and altogether ruined a brilliant product.
- This happened with Lync, being replaced with Skype-for-business then Teams. Now Teams again missing extremely vital functions, like chatting directly with FEDERATED domain users, sharing files, direct calls with non-org-wide users and most important - CANNOT GET RID OF STUPID BANNERS WITHOUT TURN OFF NOTIFICATION SOUNDS ! How stupid is that?
- This happened with Windows, being removed old fashioned control panel features and replacing with "modern" alternatives that LACK functionality. Basically turning my 30" monitor into a tablet - reduced stuff that you can see on screen.
Now this is happening with EDGE, the only good feature that EDGE (and IE) had is to be able to "open/run" any file that you don't want to keep on the drive and you don't have to organize it and clean downloads folder all the time. Not to mention that this works perfectly when I need to download a zip file and then just grab one file form it. On old EDGE I click open, zip file opens and I drag one file out of it, close it and all that other crap is gone. Now I have to download it into downloads folder, go there, open it, and then go back to delete it manually cause I don't want those to pile up! Same with PDFs that I just want to look for 3 sec. and I don't need them, same with MSI installers ...
This is what M$ good at - removing functionality that are already existing to make it "better"Yoneff, you are right about the Open/Run feature, which is the only part of your post that's on-topic, but that's also why the Edge Team started this thread -- to get our feedback to restore that function as they build a new Microsoft browser on the Chromium platform. Please refrain from general MS bashing, as non-constructive. (For what it's worth, I'd say that Teams is an absolutely fantastic app, better in virtually every way than Lync/Skype for Business, including your specific issue of file sharing -- Teams is so effective at sharing files, even just in chat outside a Team, that I find myself using email much less than I used to back on the Lync/S4B days, where I used to always go to email for file sharing because S4B was so clumsy, and you can stop banner notifications by adjusting Notification settings and setting it to "Only show in feed" (app only, not in the web version) or "None" (both web version and app) for which group of notifications you want to quiet).
