Edge Chromium - Download File - Open vs. Save Option Pop-up Window

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I recently installed Edge Chromium and found that the program has inherited the Chrome method of downloading files, wherein the file automatically downloads to the downloads folder (or other selected folder), then gives the user the option to open the file or open the file location folder.

I much prefer the old IE/Edge download file method with the open vs save option pop-up window that allowed the user to open the file (to a temp location) or save/save-as the file to a location specified by the user at the time of download, all of which occurred before the file is downloaded locally.

The Chrome download method is one of the reasons I never switched to Chrome in the first place, and now it appears we have lost the old IE/Edge method. The Chrome method leads to many unnecessary downloads in a non-temp folder location, bloating my storage. I've turned on the option in Edge Chromium to "ask where to save file before download", but it only works intermittently and still doesn't allow the user to open the file to a temp location for files the user doesn't plan to save long term (i.e. for files I only want to print, not save).

How do we get Microsoft to add the old IE/Edge download method back? Seems like a very simple code. I know that Edge Chromium accepts extensions, can someone with the appropriate skills build an extension to add back the functionality?

Thanks,

NSR

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"save" button has a drop down menu that displays only "save"

Please look again. If you click on the left-hand part of that button avoiding the dropdown chevron ˅ , do you not get a Save as dialogue?

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Anonymous

2021-04-01T20:36:29+00:00

This is probably not exactly a response, but... In Firefox, I can open the files downloaded by pressing Control-J. That opens a page of downloaded files, which I can then view again, open, or delete.

If Edge has this feature I have not learned how. If it does not have this feature PLEASE ADD IT!

Cheers

Bob Locher
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Anonymous

2021-03-10T15:45:30+00:00

I DO handle dozens of files for download daily. The currently updated version remembers my last folder choice, but DOES ask me to click to SAVE or SAVE AS. So it's (normally) only ONE extra click per file. Not a great burden, given the great flexibility that this provides. I OFTEN have to save to a different file than I usually do and this lets me do it without having to MOVE the files from one folder to another. If you're saving to LOTS of different folders, some kind of naming mechanism for them would help and a "super-folder" containing links to them so you can view folder details to see which ones were changed and when they were changed. This would also let you easily drag and drop them as needed.
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Anonymous

2021-03-10T14:48:40+00:00

But then in a work environment where tons of PDFs are opened a day, the ones that you actually want to get saved will be lost in a list of everything you've opened that day. Yes, if you want to save a second copy to a proper download location you could do so, but just adds another step.
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Anonymous

2021-01-05T17:27:21+00:00

Microsoft promised that they will bring back the feature in Chromium Edge, finally it is back.
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