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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.
Good to see the new interface but the thing that makes no sense to me is to expose save as and hide save.
The 2 normal options for me are open or save to downloads; these should both be single click. Save as being in the … menu would make more sense as this requires multiple clicks to use anyway so adding an extra click makes little difference whereas adding an extra click to a single click action more than doubles the complexity (click, find option in popup, move cursor and click again.
Agree with others that Save as should remember last used path as when I use save as (not very often), it's generally when I want to save bunch of files in a specific directory.