From Edge Canary version 86.0.613.0, there is a new downloads UI which asks you to whether open, save or to save as the download before downloading it which is a great feature as the user would now get the option to use the file once and not save it. I am thankful to the Edge engineering team for implementing this feature and making it look better from what I had suggested here.
The images of new Downloads UI are as follows:
@GraniteStateColin Thanks for the lovely feedback! Yes, we did announce this in a couple of places. I'll share them so that you can keep an eye out there in the future, too.
1) We create a handful of informational tiles with each week's Dev release (and every ~6 for Beta) on our "What's New" page of the Insider website
2) Our feature owner wrote and published an article on this forum in the "Articles" section
Announcing the Open/Save as/Save and Delete prompts for downloads! - Microsoft Tech Community\
3) We also called it out in our weekly Top Feedback summary.
Hopefully that helps! We're excited about all of our new features and want to ensure that we can effectively tell you all about them -- so to that end, please let us know if you have suggestions for different/additional announcement methods.
Fawkes (they/them)
Program Manager & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
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What we just noticed is, that the option to open certain file types automatically is ignored:
In this case, if I download a JNLP file, it ask what to do. Is this a bug or by design?
