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Can we have a 'needs to be re-addressed' category?
The way 'Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files' has been addressed has broken every single download extension I've tried in both the Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome extension stores.
Why do I need a download extension? Because I have very frequently needed to be able to keep an eye on the download speed and predicted remaining time when downloading large files (to e.g. restart a stalled/slowed download rather than only find out there was a problem up to hours later and have to start again). And I ALWAYS need to have downloads download to different locations depending on what they are. ALL of the extensions that provide alternative download bars at the bottom or on mouseover of a toolbar button presume that the download location has been set before the download starts and they kick in. Which is how things work in Firefox and Google Chrome, adn how they USED to work in this Edge. But now it isn't. NOW the extension kicks in on clicking the download target WITHOUT presenting the dialogue to set the target location, the download is made to the Downloads folder with an 'Unconfirmed-' prefix on the download file name, and the download proceeds until it reaches 99% and stalls. One THEN has to open the Edge download page, and THERE, AFTER the download, there is the new 'open. save, save as' option, where using the 'save as' finally opens the save dialogue, and only then is the downloaded file completed, has the unconfirmed- removed from the file name, and the file moved to the wanted location.
This is dreadful, and is sufficient on its own for me not to use Edge as my main, or even my backup browser.
You need to re-address this so that Edge works with all the Edge and Chrome download helper extensions it DID work with before you made this change. The choice and location setting need to be finalized BEFORE the download actually starts, and the download should be to the newly set location or a temp folder, not the Downloads folder, when the location is set elsewhere.
As Edge is unusable to me like this as I make at least a few, often many, downloads every day, I will now restrict my use of Canary and Edge to one test run and check to see if this has been fixed per release.
DavidGB wrote:
Can we have a 'needs to be re-addressed' category?
The way 'Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files' has been addressed has broken every single download extension I've tried in both the Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome extension stores.
Why do I need a download extension? Because I have very frequently needed to be able to keep an eye on the download speed and predicted remaining time when downloading large files (to e.g. restart a stalled/slowed download rather than only find out there was a problem up to hours later and have to start again). And I ALWAYS need to have downloads download to different locations depending on what they are. ALL of the extensions that provide alternative download bars at the bottom or on mouseover of a toolbar button presume that the download location has been set before the download starts and they kick in. Which is how things work in Firefox and Google Chrome, adn how they USED to work in this Edge. But now it isn't. NOW the extension kicks in on clicking the download target WITHOUT presenting the dialogue to set the target location, the download is made to the Downloads folder with an 'Unconfirmed-' prefix on the download file name, and the download proceeds until it reaches 99% and stalls. One THEN has to open the Edge download page, and THERE, AFTER the download, there is the new 'open. save, save as' option, where using the 'save as' finally opens the save dialogue, and only then is the downloaded file completed, has the unconfirmed- removed from the file name, and the file moved to the wanted location.
This is dreadful, and is sufficient on its own for me not to use Edge as my main, or even my backup browser.
You need to re-address this so that Edge works with all the Edge and Chrome download helper extensions it DID work with before you made this change. The choice and location setting need to be finalized BEFORE the download actually starts, and the download should be to the newly set location or a temp folder, not the Downloads folder, when the location is set elsewhere.
As Edge is unusable to me like this as I make at least a few, often many, downloads every day, I will now restrict my use of Canary and Edge to one test run and check to see if this has been fixed per release.
It was expected and normal that extensions made for Chrome don't work in Edge, because they are 2 different browsers, only sharing the same engine.
more radical changes might come to Edge in the future, and it's not Edge developers' fault, they simply brought the same feature from Edge legacy back to the new Edge, because it was what people asked for.
so there are 2 things here:
1. you can't expect extensions made for Chrome to work on other browsers, such as Edge.
2. extension developers didn't do their job correctly and shipped the same version of their extension made for Chrome, to Edge webstore. this change isn't new, they had enough time to evaluate insider channels of Edge but they didn't. so it's better to ask extension developers to make their tools compatible.
" I have very frequently needed to be able to keep an eye on the download speed and predicted remaining time when downloading large files "
when you download a file, you see at the bottom how much data is remaining to finish the download and also you see the time remaining. it's the same for small/big files.
so that's 2 variables.
the 3rd variable you're asking for, the speed, is shown in edge://downloads/all
as you see it's a long array of texts to cram into that small rectangle at the bottom of Edge for each download, but if you want to see the speed in there, (all 3 variables), you can request it as feedback from Edge browser, they might have to expand the download thingy at the bottom.