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

2020-09-04T23:07:27+00:00

I was hoping this was just a setting that I had not set up properly. So discouraged to see it's the way the developers intended. My feedback asking them to give the option for the old functionality has been submitted. Just this week I've had to go in & delete around 100 files that I needed to read & review for less than 5 minutes each. So extra steps that I don't need to deal with - I prefer the old system. There might be some that like this new way but I'm pretty sure overwhelmingly people like the old way of a temp file they don't have to think about.
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Anonymous

2020-09-04T22:25:45+00:00

How hard is it to make a MEANINGFUL message MS?

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Anonymous

2020-09-04T20:40:13+00:00

"Save" vs "Cancel"? Does cancel mean "I don't want to see/open this file" or does it mean to just "cancel the save operation, bug let me see it"? How obtuse can you get? A giant leap back to Windows 95 or OS/2 messages. How hard is it to make a MEANINGFUL message MS?
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Anonymous

2020-09-01T19:06:44+00:00

TOTALLY!!
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