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Announcing the Open/Save as/Save and Delete prompts for downloads!
There is absolutely an extra click after this change.
Before: Click link > Change folder if needed > Save
Now: Click link > Click Save As > Change folder if needed > Save
Additionally that extra click happens at the bottom of the screen (whereas the file browse dialog appears in the middle of the screen), so that extra click is probably far from where your mouse cursor was.
IshaiH, yes, you are missing something. 🙂
The previous "Open" option required first saving the file. This created not just an extra click, but a whole workflow change compared with Legacy Edge and IE to deal with files that are intended to be opened once for a few seconds, but not saved -- pictures, audio files, executables (just run them), etc. Before this change, you either left the files to accumulate or had to add a step to your workflow to manually navigate to the folder (potentially difficult if you save downloads to different locations) and remove the files that you never wanted to save in the first place. This is a HUGE improvement.
Having said that, I agree with the criticism that Save As should not always revert to the Downloads folder. I would prefer that it remember and go to the last Save As location.
GraniteStateColin That's an odd behavior to me but you do you, I guess.
For me, it's rare that I download a file for a single use and want it deleted. It's definitely not worth the extra clicks on every download.
What would make sense is to make this an option. If you want a new download hidden at the bottom of the screen waiting for you to hit Save As instead of the file dialog just showing up, fine, for those of us who don't want that option, let us turn it off.
People who download a lot of files will find this new feature very annoying. I know I do.
In fact, now that it's made it's way to the prod version of Edge, I'm switching back to Chrome.
I really only checked this page to see if i-am-kent ever responded to the many comments complaining about this feature.
IshaiH wrote:That's an odd behavior to me but you do you, I guess.
For me, it's rare that I download a file for a single use and want it deleted. It's definitely not worth the extra clicks on every download.
I wouldn't be lying if i said that In the past year i've seen more than 100 people asking for this feature because they have single-use files to download and don't want to go to downloads folder and delete them manually, just want to run it temporarily, like in Edge classic.
but for you that don't want this, just turn it off: edge://settings/downloads
yes that's obviously annoying when downloading a lot of files, that's why they put that option in Edge settings. exactly for that reason.
IshaiH, either I don't understand your use-case (entirely possible) or you're missing something about how the new download option works in Edge. I don't see any scenario where it's more clicks.
If you just want to save the file, go to Settings -> Download and be sure "Ask me what to do with each download" is turned off.
If you do want to be prompted where to save or just to open it directly, turn that on.
The only difference I see between this and Chrome is that now you can choose Open as an option in Edge without having to download first, where in Chrome, you can't. But it doesn't create any extra clicks to do that...
Am I missing something, or were you not aware of the Setting option?
There is absolutely an extra click after this change.
Before: Click link > Change folder if needed > Save
Now: Click link > Click Save As > Change folder if needed > Save
Additionally that extra click happens at the bottom of the screen (whereas the file browse dialog appears in the middle of the screen), so that extra click is probably far from where your mouse cursor was.
IshaiH I really hate this feature too so I just downgraded my edge version back to 85.
you need to uninstall edge and than download the exe msi file to edge 85 version. this feature really annoying me, I even started thinking going back to google chrome because of that, I download a lot of files and this is stupid to click another time to download.
