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Why would the developer be smart enough to tamper with the settings item inside the download setting
Thanks for submitting feedback, we appreciate the care you took to describe your problem. From what I can understand, it appears that you are finding the recent change to support "Open" functionality in downloads to be inefficient.
In particular, what I am hearing is that you prefer that once you click a donwload link, it asks you where you want to save the file immediately (without having to click "Save as", which requires you to perform one extra click).
The feature team is keeping track of feedback of this type. We made the change because we received overwhelming feedback from people who want the previous "Open/SaveAs" functionality in legacy Edge back yet we didn't want to overcomplicate the settings associated with Downloads, which may confuse users.
I don't like the logic of how edge's latest version handles downloading files.
It's convenient for users who need to work directly with downloaded files, but it creates an extra workload for users who need to do more complex file manipulation.
Install Google Chrome, uninstall edge, and everything is fine.
End of this post.
Reporting this topic for moderator to take a look. looks like OP just wants to advertise here for chrome, propagate their own agenda and by marking their post as best response it misleads other people who read this topic.
this is all despite the fact that the solution was already presented in this thread.
- Thank you for the report! I and the other members of our admin team are always happy to provide an extra pair of eyes.
While this post is somewhat aggressive, we didn't find anything against our Terms of Service besides inappropriately marking their aggressive response as best.
Thank you all for continuing to engage and utilize the Microsoft Tech Community!Dylan_Snodgrass Yeah. Why would someone force people to not use Edge?! We can go with our opinion.
- Wait. What? Calm down. I don't think there's any rule this post breaks and is simply not deserving of a report. They are not advertising anything either. He stated his issue and left. Perhaps with animosity, but certainly not in an inappropriate manner. Let's just move on.
Agreed with what Alexei says, OP is just simply disliked how the new download system worked and moved on to Chrome. No big deal, just move on.
