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MissyQ
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Dec 08, 2020

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DavidGB
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Dec 08, 2020
As last week, you really, really need to re-open the issue of putting open/save/save-as on the native download shelf, wrecking every one of the custom download manager ui extensions in the Edge and Google Chrome extension stores. It's going to cost you a lot of potential migrants from Firefox and Google Chrome. GET THE OPEN/SAVE/SAVE-AS CHOICE OF THE DOWNLOAD SHELF. Having it there makes all the extensions offering better, more advanced download UIs unusable, removing the large choice users had - and still have in Google Chrome and Firefox.
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HotCakeX
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Dec 08, 2020

DavidGB 

and yet you haven't answered that why those extension developers shouldn't change their extension to be compatible with the new system.

should Microsoft ask THEIR permission for making a change that PEOPLE asked for?

there is always 2 sides of a story.

 

some guy thought Edge is like Chrome and made an extension, now boom, it doesn't work with Edge because that's Not chrome, Edge is another browser.

Opera, Vivaldi, Brave, they all have deeply changed their browsers and lots of extensions don't work on them.

just because a browser is using Chromium under-the-hood does Not mean that all extensions should be compatible with every browser.

 

this is a fair point to be honest that I'm describing.

 

like if I was a browser developer and wanted to use Chromium, I shouldn't be afraid that oh if I do this, if i change that, then some extensions made for another browser (Chrome) won't work with my browser. if my browser was so similar to Chrome, then there is no point in making my browser, everybody could just use Chrome and stay happy.

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