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MicrosoftProvide 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.
Hi Elliot Kirk
It's so good to see the team are listening to the feedback, specially this one,
- Yes, that's totally right. another example would be when a user downloads a software setup file and only wants to run it in order to install that software and does not need to keep that setup file afterwards. I think the team should be familiar with the "run / open / save / save as options" because it's been one of the unique features of all Microsoft browsers such as Internet Explorer and the classic Edge browser.
- Right again, this is where "save as" comes into play where we can choose both the file name and location.
- Yes, with options like "run / open / save / save as" available, it will decrease the user interactions because without those options, user would need to manually open file explorer, go to downloads folder and do the rest.
- Not really. there doesn't need to be different behaviors for different file types. again just like in Internet Explorer and the classic Edge 🙂
- I want to add a 5th suggestion which I really hope you consider it because it's very useful, I've explained all the aspects of it on a different thread that I made a while ago
the title is "Let us Choose Download Location For each File Type separately in Edge insider browser" please take a look
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Let-us-Choose-Download-Location-For-each-File-Type-separately-in/m-p/919520
- An integrated download manager sounds good 🙂
Make the download page as an APP and keep downloading when Edge is closed.
It's a easy way to manage download.
Kiven wrote:Make the download page as an APP and keep downloading when Edge is closed.
It's a easy way to manage download.
This is really great!
so we can start download, close the browser and then possibly see the download progress in the Windows 10 action center and also get a notification when download is done
HotCakeX wrote:
Kiven wrote:Make the download page as an APP and keep downloading when Edge is closed.
It's a easy way to manage download.
This is really great!
so we can start download, close the browser and then possibly see the download progress in the Windows 10 action center and also get a notification when download is done
Action center!
It's great,
I just forget it.
- A tone is very useful when the download is complete
i-am-kentDeleted and HotCakeX, I am interested in learning more about what you mean by an "integrated download manager".
What are some potential features you would want in a download manager?
Hi,
for me one of the features is the speed of the download manager and how many concurrent connections it makes to host servers (I know parallel downloading flag is available)
and more important than that, is the ability to Resume failed or broken downloads. if a download is failed due to internet connection loss or unexpected shut down etc, Edge insider can't resume it, but 3rd party download managers can, such as IDM, so even if the file URL or the file name is changed, the download manager would detect the exact part and resume the download from there. this happens lots of times, specially for links that have limited availability period.
and lastly, the ability to choose separate default folder locations for each file types, more info here:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Let-us-Choose-Download-Location-For-each-File-Type-separately-in/m-p/919520
I believe all of these features and improvements can be applied to the new Edge browser and in this page where there are so much vacant space left to add new options.
edge://settings/downloads
thanks 🙂i-am-kent The MOST IMPORTANT thing I can say about all these options is that they should be just that OPTIONS. There should be settings to allow users to decide for themselves how they want it to work. PLEASE stop trying to decide what's "right" for us. And since we are all very familiar with the OLD (IE) way of doing it, why not let THAT be the default. As a programmer, I know it makes the code bigger and more costly to have all these options, but the browser seems to me to be the most widely-used feature of the system and should therefore be the most user-friendly.
