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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.
Deleted We're sorry to hear that you're experiencing some frustration with this update. As some of the other Insiders in this thread have mentioned, this was a highly-requested feature, which you can read more about here.
However, it's important for us that the functionality works for as many people as possible. If you haven't yet, can you please submit detailed feedback through our secure, in-browser tool? (Shift+Alt+I, or "..." menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback) And to confirm, have you toggled the switch "off" on this page? edge://settings/downloads
Fawkes (they/them)
Program Manager & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
Prior to this update, edge browser download settings had the same additional option as chrome to ask for a save location before each download. The plugin I use is the "Pixiv Toolbox(Pixiv 工具箱)". First, I identify the image I want to download and then the Pixiv Toolbox caches the image and renames the file according to a predetermined filename format. Sometimes, when downloading more than one image at a time, Pixiv Toolbox will combine all the images into a single zip file.
Note that Pixiv Toolkit does not take over the download function of the browser.Therefore, the renamed or packaged cache files are saved to local storage through the browser's native download function.
I can quickly save each file to its corresponding folder by asking for the download location in a popup window each time I save. However, the latest update breaks the final part of the process.
The latest setting has been changed to ask the user if they want to perform an open or save as action on the saved file.So as soon as the Pixiv Toolbox packed up the cached files, I noticed that the automatic popup asking the browser where to save the downloaded file disappeared.
If I don't open the download settings, all cached files are saved to the default download folder.But if I open the download settings and select a path, then all files are saved to the same path.
The action triggered by the Pixiv Toolkit is an automatic browser download, not a Save As.The latest change virtually eliminates the popup that asked where to save each time you download.
That's why I said the logic before and after the change to this setting item is completely different. Of course I'm surprised that the update is what the community expects.
Deleted Thank you for providing that detailed context; that makes much more sense. Tagging in i-am-kent to see if he has any insights to share.
Fawkes (they/them)
Program Manager & Community Manager - Microsoft EdgeDeleted My apologies if I am unable to understand, but I am working off the automatically translated version of your reply.
It might be helpful to give a screenshot of what exactly is happening when a download is triggered, because if you just need to save files in different folders, then the save as option should serve your needs. I do concede that this is an extra step to your established workflow but should work for the time being until either the developer of the extension or the Edge team works it out. I am adding a screen shot below to make clear what I am talking about.
