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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.
Open / Run is a must for me. No matter what.
Second, everything you said about bulk downloads is not something I really seek in a browser.
I think it could be useful to let the user choose between:
- open/run: as in current edge
- save: to downloads
- save to recent location: dropdown with MRU five download locations alternatives
- save as... : custom location and filename
Think to my daily workflow: every day I attend lessons of different courses and I need to download updated slides for each one, I'm used to put slides for each course in different folders, and (currently) every time I have to go with "save as..." selecting the right folder going back from the last one which was of a different course.
The MRU locations is what really speeds up downloading multiple files in my use case. Bulk download to the same folder is better addressed by proper download managers.