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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.
HotCakeX Regarding the option to turn off the setting, the person is talking about the new system breaking his third-party extension. So, he can't turn it off and have it work as it did before. He will have to speak to the third-party developer, or the edge team would have to give an option to use Chromium's native system.
Oh also about this, this is not about third party extension. It is about how the new download work and how it messed up OP workflow. I can understand how OP felt as I had the exact experience when the new download came up.
- I believe that is a different issue. The OP actually talked about an extension in his reply.
Yeah, you are right. I just saw it in his reply.