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Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files - Discussion
Hello everyone,
Thanks so much for all the feedback provided regarding Open/SaveAs. We are now introducing an option for users using Edge version 87.0.629.0 and above to choose, for each download, whether they want to Open, Save As, Save, or Cancel a download. To enable this option, navigate to edge://settings/downloads and enable, "Ask me what to do with each download." Once you download a file after enabling that setting, you will have the option to Open, Save As, Save, or Cancel it. If you choose to open it directly, it will be downloaded to a temporary folder.
Additionally, we have exposed an option to directly delete downloaded files from your computer, in the browser so that you can easily clean up after downloading your files without leaving the browser.
To learn more about these features, please check out our post.
Hey everyone, thanks so much for your interest in this feature and for all your feedback and ideas. We appreciate your patience while we work through improvements to the downloads experience. It is super exciting that many of you are so passionate about the experience and it’s been a pleasure reading through the thoughtful and constructive solutions proposed by this community.
We are still working to plan and implement improvements to the downloads experience. Our goal is to better support all of our customers, no matter which browsers they’ve previously used and are most familiar with. We hope to roll out some improvements for you to try in the Canary channel soon.
I just wanted to let you know that we are super appreciative of the interest and patience as we work to improve this feature for all of our customers.
i-am-kent Elliot Kirk Looking forward to hearing your update when it's ready. I personally would prefer you to take whatever time is necessary simplifying the Chromium backend first, so that Edge can more easily implement the minimum features requested in this thread but then still be easily able to add all other requested features as well (especially the admin previously noting certain requirements for configuration in Group Policies -- I bet that needs really significant changes to the backend).
The Vivaldi moderator at https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/362500 said Chromium's downloader implementation and file path determination is very complex, and any changes need careful scrutiny to avoid opening security vulnerabilities.
My assumption is that the Edge developers are aware of these same limitations and are looking into it just like the Vivaldi devs are. It would be great if y'all could work together to contribute the necessary improvements to the Chromium codebase, instead of duplicating each other's work.
This all sounds like a ton of work to me -- thank you to everyone working so hard on this to listen to users and support their unique needs, rather than just making a Chrome clone and calling it a day.
