Announcing the Open/Save as/Save and Delete prompts for downloads!

[i-am-kent]

Update: Open/SaveAs is now available on Edge Stable ( version >= 86.0.622.38)

Greetings, Microsoft Edge Insiders! 

As a part of our top feedback, we have been looking at implementing features from Microsoft Edge legacy. One of those items is a feature asking users if they want to Open, Save As, Save, or Cancel a download. This week, we're excited to announce that this setting is now available in our Dev and Canary channels! We expect all builds with version >= 87.0.629.0 to have this feature.

To enable it, navigate to edge://settings/downloads and toggle on, "Ask me what to do with each download." Once you download a file after enabling that setting, you will see options to: 

• Open the file, which downloads it to a temporary folder and opens the file. This temporary folder will attempt to clear itself whenever you start a new browser session 
• Save as, which opens the file explorer, allowing you to rename and choose where the file is saved 
• Save the file, located under the ... button, which saves the file to your default downloads folder (you can also change this on the Downloads settings page) 
• Cancel the file download entirely, this is also located under the ... button 

Another feature we're adding is the ability to delete downloads directly from the browser itself. If you head to the Downloads page, you can now right-click on a downloaded item (or the ... menu for the item in the download shelf/bar) and select "Delete file." Once you do this, the file will be deleted from your computer. We hope that this will help users who like to download files automatically while still keeping their downloads folder clean. 

We encourage you to give these changes a try! Have a suggestion on how to improve these new download features? Navigate to the browser's ... menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback to let us know your thoughts. 

- The Microsoft Edge Product Team 

[#2]

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/l4ysju/new_option_in_the_downloads_section/,

Like this flyout, I realy love it

[#3]

This looks nice, can't wait to get it

[#4]

These fundamental changes render some 3rd party extensions made for Chrome, unusable on Edge but that's fine, extension developers can update their extensions to make it compatible again.

[#5]

I see, I see. I dont' really get what you trying to say though

[#6]

@HotCakeX 

I think that Edge should somehow without compromisng security have a popup like this that says you have been using Save As a lot, do you want to pick that as default?

[#7]

It's okay

[#8]

Maybe but I still prefer to have 4 options by default

[#9]

Even if i switch, maybe i use the options 50-50, so it won't be much useful. still the rest will be hidden.

[#10]

@i-am-kent Time to go back to Chrome.

[#11]

I agree with @nikolam340 . 

In my opinion, Microsoft hasn't fixed anything regarding this issue (saving documents via the web browser).  They just changed it to a different kind of "horrible".  We don't need or want anything "flyout flashy" and click heavy.  We just want it to work with one click of the mouse to get the Save As dialog box so when I saving 10 or 20 documents in a row I'm not having to keep moving my mouse to the top of the screen and clicking two additional times for each document before going back to click the next document.  PLEASE go back to the old Save As dialog box behavior.