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Of all the things one can use to weight one browser vs another...one thing I liked about IE is that you had a trivially easy way to always, consistently, get it to prompt you where to download files (Save As rather than Save).
I'm avoiding Chrome, and I'm no fan of FireFox. So I'm trying to get used to Edge (or as some call it, now that it's using Chromium, "Chredge").
However, like Chrome, when you download a file, the download starts immediately, defaulting to your Downloads folder. Which you can change...but that's to permanently change your downloads folder.
But very often I want to tell a browser to download a specific file into a specific folder, and Save As worked great for those "one-off" situations. But Chredge insists on downloading everything into the one designated folder, without prompting you. Or, every once in a while, I do get a Save As prompt, but it's very inconsistent. I honestly have no idea what triggers it (why at times it comes up, and at others, it doesn't).
There's a right-click option, Save Link As, which works for links that are pointing directly to the resource to download (it triggers a standard Save As dialog box, which is what I want). But if the download is implemented through button or an image that triggers some script that eventually gets you to the download, then the best that might happen is a prompt to save an HTML page, and not the actual file.
If I haven't discovered it yet by now, then I can't imagine it's there and I've just missed it. Thoughts? A custom policy maybe? The one-liner question is: I want an option for the browser to always prompt me where to save a given download.
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And if your suggestion is to move the file out of the Downloads folder and into the target folder after it's done, then you're missing the point.
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edge://settings/downloads
Tick "Ask where to save each file before downloading".
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facepalm
Ok, I went there...and it's checked. So shouldn't it, y'know, "ask where to save each file before downloading", like the label says...??
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It should. It's always worked for me in Chrome. Maybe there's a bug in "Edge-ium". 
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- Homer
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Did I hear Elephantium?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Why do they hide these useful things...
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No fan of FireFox but this is important to you.
Well, in FireFox, you simply open the options page (Tools->Options> and on the very first page of adjustments (General) you can scroll down to "Files & Applications" and set two convenient parameters:
One: set a default directory for downloads.
Two: click checkbox to "always ask"
It's been trivially easy like this for many years.
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Nice.
What this tells me is that, if they went through the trouble of "re-introducing" the feature...then I can't possibly be the only one to find the current behavior annoying.
Looking forward to it. I really liked the Save vs Save As options to be there instead of the current one-size-fits-all solution. Because conversely, sometimes I do want to be prompted where to save it, and at other times, I just want it to use the default. It makes sense to me to make both options readily available for each download.
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This is a consistent pattern in all of Microsoft's applications that have the ability to save files. For example, I can never tell where Outlook will default to saving an attachment. It's never the same folder twice. The other Office applications exhibit the same behavior. Most of their non-Office apps insist on using the Documents folder, even if you've already saved something in a different folder in the same session.
Software Zen: delete this;
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You have to take into consideration that we're not normal. Normal people just do things with their computer as-is. If they download something, they expect it to be in their Download folder. If they save a picture, they expect it to be in their Pictures folder. If the browser asks them where to store a downloaded file or picture, it will just confuse and annoy them.
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I still maintain to this day that Windows needs "regular" vs "expert" user modes. I reverse pretty much every single checkbox that controls what Windows Explorer shows by default. I understand MS wants to hide things from users to keep things simple. I want to see everything, because IMO hiding anything at all is a security risk (starting with file extensions - and we all know why).
But then, I do understand that "expert mode" for Windows already exists...and it's called Linux.
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Did Viking teenagers complain that they didn't ask to Bjorn?
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Since you ax, I Thor my chance to offer a choice Woden or two: who the Frigga cares?
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They were probably too busy raping and pillaging to Bjorn.*
* Yes, I know the Vikings were also merchants, skilled sailors, etc. But their popular perception is otherwise.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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and too busy becoming masters of a certain text editor, they are viKings after all.
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When grounded to they get sent to their Vahalla?
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Valhalla? No - that's their favorite ice cream flavor if they're Loki enough to get some.
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And to "celebrate", there is a new trailer for Discovery Season 3: Star Trek Day 2020 | Discovery Panel - YouTube[^] (You can turn it off at about 3 minutes in, if you want).
Yay! Looking good ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Picky, picky, picky! 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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That will be no tribble at all.
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It's Time for Yesterday!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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