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

Anonymous
2020-02-16T21:25:44+00:00

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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Anonymous
2021-04-20T15:13:44+00:00

"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? 

You might submit feedback to the effect that the downloads flyout is too narrow to permit the display of more than the first few characters of Enregistrer comme ...

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-03-18T21:07:09+00:00

    Yes .pdf and other doc files like word and excel. We don't want to download them, we just want to open and review them. In the previous Edge, when we clicked on the file it would open in PDF/Excel and we could review. When done close the file and its gone. Now with the new Edge, it downloads the file in a folder. we have to open it ourselves or it may open in the respected app, but then when we are done the files will need to be manually removed from the downloads folder. That is extra inconvenient work. I am now seeing users avoiding Edge cause they don't this trouble. I do not want to avoid it, I like the new Edge, except a few teething issues if I may call them so.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-03-19T00:45:52+00:00

    Settings > Apps > Default Apps

    .pdf > Select Edge

    .xlsx > Select Edge

    .xlsm > Select Edge

    .xls > Select Edge

    .xltx > Select Edge

    .xltm > Select Edge

    See if that changes the behavior of the browser.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-03-19T01:21:18+00:00

    Checked that setting. for pdf alllows to set Edge as the default app. .xlsx etc does not, if somehow i do manage to change the default app then the Windows behaviour will change. Anytime an excel sheet will have to be opened, will automatically open in Edge, which would not be ideal, else will have to open Excel app and then browse to the excel file to open and edit it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-03-19T11:46:09+00:00

    In the previous Edge, when we clicked on the file it would open in PDF/Excel and we could review. When done close the file and its gone. 

    Every file has to be downloaded before it can be displayed on your computer. In older browsers, using the Open option simply downloaded the file to a temp folder. In many cases - and often very fortunately - such files are retained in the temp folder for some time, even a few days. This is why it is sometimes possible to recover a file that had been opened and then edited, but not saved by the user.

    You might consider setting the default folder for downloads to %temp%, or perhaps a dedicated folder inside %temp%. This can then be emptied during routine maintenance, daily or weekly, say, or during the shutdown phase by virtue of a script to empty it.

    If you have the Ask where to save ... option selected, you would only have to give input if you didn't want a downloaded file to end up in the temp folder.

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