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?

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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2021-04-01T22:53:34+00:00

... 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.

Did you try in Edge?
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Anonymous

2020-10-19T18:05:34+00:00

Update: This is finally fixed. Cheers!
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Anonymous

2020-08-27T21:49:26+00:00

I know MS folks are following these posts, I fear suggesting "simple" but "not for everyone" workarounds. MS managers may decide "there is a workaround so we don't have to do any work". I have seen it happen too many times. Managers in EVERY business prefer the path of least expense. Fixing software IS expensive. They have to beware of the bottom line. Stockholders don't care about how well the software works, only what their dividend will be. Don't give mgmt an excuse to do nothing, because that is what they will do!!!!

Keep asking MS to give us the old save/save as/open (open implies save to c:\temp).
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Anonymous

2020-07-31T20:50:20+00:00

I suspect that MS will NEVER fix this unless/until enough corporate customers complain about it. When this "feature" reaches my annoyance tolerance limit, I will remove Edge from my system and make FF my default.

PS. Since Edge has been pulled from the same browser base-code as Chrome, the behavior is the same for both.

PPS. Why couldn't they have made it a setting? WOW, what an idea: give the users a choice! Make it a setting or revert to the old IE/FF behavior.

Hey MS! Are you reading this????
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