Edge browser save as option disabled downloads

Another new feature in Edge 87 is the ability to delete downloads directly from within the browser UI. Once downloaded, select the three dots next to the download and there the delete file option. Other options include opening the file, setting the file type to always open automatically, to open the folder it has been saved into, to copy the download link, or to report the download to Microsoft because you believe it is unsafe.

Edge, like most Chromium-based browsers, starts the download immediately even if the user has not responded to the prompt. I found that the hard way when I installed Edge some months ago, since it was irreversible, I was forced to migrate to a new Local Windows account and I uninstalled Edge right after.

When my Windows 10 gets the new Edge automatically through an update, I will not use it, when I reinstall Windows 10 in the future that comes with the new Edge, I will just use it to download whatever other browser that I use. Imagine if Microsoft had actually released a browser that respected privacy and only integrated as much as the user wanted — choices at least. It does seem like a nice browser but yea, not with a ten foot pole as it is. I just think Microsoft did a total surrender in adopting Chromium as a web browser engine.

He at least was proud of Microsoft being a software company that knew how to build quality software. Today all Microsoft seems interested in is cloud, cloud and more cloud services.

Windows is almost a legacy operating system and Microsoft spends more time marketing Azure these days. Abandoning its own browser engine just added another white flag that Microsoft has given up.

The web is governed by network effects. With chromium you tap into them. Today Browsers are simply a consumer facing frontend, since the technology for the backend is already there, free.

They likewise dropped a lot of other sucky software when Steve Ballmer was still around. Sometimes companies have winners, sometimes they have losers. All browsers initiate the download regardless of whether you accept to save it or not. You can easily check this using the Windows Task Manager: pay attention to the lower right of this. They removed the related setting in Firefox 63, two years ago. One can fully disable updates in Pale Moon, though.

If you want to update you just remove the policy. Yes, I have pointed this out in a previous article as well. But this is not really a user-facing setting, I can do the same with Chrome or Edge. Not in Firefox either and in Opera there is a setting where you can set it to ask first where to download. Good news! At least Microsoft is bringing this feature back. Hands-on with the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge.

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Follow him on Telegram , Twitter , and YouTube. View all posts by Sergey Tkachenko. As well as also wanting to have the option of the previous behaviour, the other thing I'd need before considering Edge a usable browser for me WRT Downloading is some additional information on the download on the shelf while the download is happening.

Specifically I need it to show the download speed alongside the 'x of y' progress. Especially on a big download, seeing the download speed has slowed or gone to zero is often the quickest way to see something has gone wrong with the download.

I guess resumable downloads at some stage would be nice too. I have to download lots of files to different locations and prefer the option to always prompt to Save As and to default to the last folder saved to. With this option, I now have to click the link, click Save As on the bottom bar, then navigate to the folder I want to save to each time. Best case scenario with a pinned folder , I now have to go through 4 clicks instead of 2 in order to save a file to the last folder I was saving to.

Also I am not able to save as. With the introduction of this feature, the Save As no longer remembers the last save location. That's probably a bug but it makes this feature very annoying. Even if the last location was still used when I select Save As, you've basically added an extra click to get there and I'm not sure what you've actually enabled here.

Before this "feature" I could cancel the download when the save to dialog showed up. I could open the file from the bar below by just clicking on it. Am I missing something here? A much more useful feature would be the option for downloads from different sites to remember their own save locations or make the list of last save locations consistent and correct. Features that might save time for people instead of making basic tasks harder. I find it intensely annoying that the "Save as" button does not default to the location previously used to save a document.

Thanks for the team's work on this, but I have to agree with the other poster this has just slowed down my workflow a lot! Expected behavior: With the "always ask me where to save.. I also have a one click option to save in default location remembered per website.

Actual behavior: Takes an extra unnecessary button click to download the file and an extra unnecessary click to save the file to default location. This is especially annoying when saving multiple files from websites that I want to rename before saving. I agree with Reverend EvvL X , azuravian , acho90 , IshaiH Please consider reverting to the previous popup or having an extra option "bypass extra download prompt before showing save as window". Created an account to post this because this is the first major change that is annoying enough that I would switch back to Chrome if it's not reverted.

Right now if I have to save a lot of files from a site like University Canvas each time I pick Save As it resets the folder to the default save folder instead of the last used folder; this results in a lot of movement through the file manager to get to the specific folder for each and every file.

This policy setting is ignored and Basic is always forbidden if the AuthSchemes policy is set and does not include Basic. If you disable this policy or don't configure it, the canonical name of the server is used. If you enable this policy, and a user includes a non-standard port a port other than 80 or in a URL, that port is included in the generated Kerberos SPN. If you don't configure or disable this policy, the generated Kerberos SPN won't include a port in any case.

You should only disable NTLMv2 to address issues with backwards compatibility as it reduces the security of authentication. If you disable this policy, a basic username and password prompt will be used to respond to NTLM and Negotiate challenges. If you enable or don't configure this policy, Windows Credential UI will be used. If you have configured the BrowserSignin policy to 'Disable browser sign-in', this policy will not take any effect.

If you enable or don't configure this setting, implicit sign-in will be enabled, Edge will attempt to sign the user into their profile based on what and how they sign in to their OS. This policy allows users to decide whether to use the OneAuth library for sign-in and token fetch in Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 RS3 and above.

If you disable or don't configure this policy, signin process will use Windows Account Manager. Microsoft Edge would be able to use accounts you logged in to Windows, Microsoft Office, or other Microsoft applications for login, without the needing of password.

Or you can provide valid account and password to sign in, which will be stored in Windows Account Manager for future usage. If you enable this policy, OneAuth authentication flow will be used for account signin. The OneAuth authentication flow has fewer dependencies and can work without Windows shell.

The account you use would not be stored in the Email and accounts page. This policy will only take effect on Windows 10 RS3 and above. Configure this policy to decide whether only on-premises accounts are enabled for implicit sign-in.

If you enable this policy, only on-premises accounts will be enabled for implicit sign-in. Upgrade from on-premises accounts to AAD accounts will be stopped as well.

If you disable or don't configure this policy, all accounts will be enabled for implicit sign-in. Note that if this policy is enabled, then previous sign-in sessions which used OneAuth by default cannot be used.

Please sign out of those profiles. This policy only applies to Microsoft Edge kiosk mode while using the public browsing experience. If you enable this policy, files downloaded as part of the kiosk session are deleted each time Microsoft Edge closes. If you disable this policy or don't configure it, files downloaded as part of the kiosk session are not deleted when Microsoft Edge closes. Allows the Microsoft Edge browser to retrieve policies from the Intune application management services and apply them to users' profiles.

Setting the policy specifies which native messaging hosts aren't subject to the deny list. All native messaging hosts are allowed by default. However, if a native messaging host is denied by policy, the admin can use the allow list to change that policy.

Setting this policy specifies which native messaging hosts shouldn't be loaded. If you set this policy to Enabled or leave it unset, Microsoft Edge can use native messaging hosts installed at the user level. If you set this policy to Disabled, Microsoft Edge can only use these hosts if they're installed at the system level. If you enable or don't configure this policy, then Password Generator will offer users a strong and unique password suggestion via a dropdown on Signup and Change Password pages.

If you disable this policy, users will no longer see strong password suggestions on Signup or Change Password pages. If you enable this policy, users can save their passwords in Microsoft Edge.

The next time they visit the site, Microsoft Edge will enter the password automatically. If you disable this policy, users can't save new passwords, but they can still use previously saved passwords. If you enable or disable this policy, users can't change or override it in Microsoft Edge. If you don't configure it, users can save passwords, as well as turn this feature off. If you enable this policy and a user consents to enabling the policy, the user will get alerted if any of their passwords stored in Microsoft Edge are found to be unsafe.

If you disable this policy, users will not be asked for permission to enable this feature. Their passwords will not be scanned and they will not be alerted either. This policy can be set as both Recommended as well as Mandatory, however with an important callout. Mandatory enabled: Given that individual user consent is a pre-condition to enabling this feature for a given user, this policy does not have a Mandatory enabled setting. Example Error state message: "This policy value is ignored because Password Monitor requires the consent of the individual user for it to be turned on.

Recommended enabled: If the policy is set to Recommended enabled, the UI in Settings will remain in 'Off' state, but a briefcase icon will be made visible next to it with this description displayed on hover - "Your organization recommends a specific value for this setting and you have chosen a different value". Mandatory and Recommended disabled: Both these states will work the normal way, with the usual captions being shown to users.

Password protection service will send users to this URL to change their password after seeing a warning in the browser.

If you enable this policy, then password protection service sends users to this URL to change their password. If you disable this policy or don't configure it, then password protection service will not redirect users to a change password URL.

If you enable this policy, the password protection service captures fingerprints of passwords on the defined URLs. Allows you to control when to trigger password protection warning. Password protection alerts users when they reuse their protected password on potentially suspicious sites. Set to 'PasswordProtectionWarningOnPasswordReuse' to show password protection warnings when the user reuses their protected password on a non-allowlisted site.

Lets you configure the default display of the browser password reveal button for password input fields on websites. If you enable or don't configure this policy, the browser user setting defaults to displaying the password reveal button.

This policy only affects the browser password reveal button, it doesn't affect websites' custom reveal buttons. The feature helps users add an additional layer of privacy to their online accounts by requiring device authentication as a way of confirming the user's identity before the saved password is auto-filled into a web form.

This ensures that non-authorized persons can't use saved passwords for autofill. This group policy configures the radio button selector that enables this feature for users. It also has a frequency control where users can specify how often they would like to be prompted for authentication. If you set this policy to 'Automatically, disable this policy, or don't configure this policy, autofill will not have any authentication flow. If you set this policy to 'With device password', then users will need to enter their device password or preferred mode of authentication under Windows Hello if on Windows - PIN, face recognition or fingerprint and equivalent options on mac to prove their identity, and only then will their password get auto-filled.

Also, The frequency for authentication prompt would be set to 'Always' by default, however users can change it to the other option as well which is 'Once every browsing session'.

This policy setting lets you configure when efficiency mode will become active. By default, efficiency mode will be active when the device is unplugged and the battery is low. On devices with no battery, the default is for efficiency mode to never become active. Set this policy to 'ActiveWhenUnplugged' and efficiency mode will become active when the device is unplugged.

If the device does not have a battery, efficiency mode will never become active. Set this policy to 'ActiveWhenUnpluggedBatteryLow' and efficiency mode will become active when the device is unplugged and the battery is low. Allows Microsoft Edge processes to start at OS sign-in and restart in background after the last browser window is closed.

If Microsoft Edge is running in background mode, the browser might not close when the last window is closed and the browser won't be restarted in background when the window closes. See the BackgroundModeEnabled policy for information about what happens after configuring Microsoft Edge background mode behavior. If you don't configure this policy, startup boost may initially be off or on. Setting the policy lets you set a list of URL patterns that can capture tabs with their same Origin.

Leaving the policy unset means that sites will not be considered for an override at this scope of capture. This policy only matches based on origin, so any path in the URL pattern is ignored. Leaving the policy unset means that sites will not be considered for an override at this scope of Capture. Overrides Microsoft Edge default printer selection rules. This policy determines the rules for selecting the default printer in Microsoft Edge, which happens the first time a user tries to print a page.

When this policy is set, Microsoft Edge tries to find a printer that matches all of the specified attributes and uses it as default printer. If there are multiple printers that meet the criteria, the first printer that matches is used. If you don't configure this policy or no matching printers are found within the timeout, the printer defaults to the built-in PDF printer or no printer, if the PDF printer isn't available.

Omitting a field means all values match; for example, if you don't specify connectivity Print Preview starts discovering all kinds of local printers. Regular expression patterns must follow the JavaScript RegExp syntax and matches are case sensitive.

Printing to a PostScript printer on Microsoft Windows different PostScript generation methods can affect printing performance. If you set this policy to Default, Microsoft Edge will use a set of default options when generating PostScript. For text in particular, text will always be rendered using Type 3 fonts.

If you set this policy to Type42, Microsoft Edge will render text using Type 42 fonts if possible. This should increase printing speed for some PostScript printers. Tells Microsoft Edge to use the system default printer as the default choice in Print Preview instead of the most recently used printer. If you disable this policy or don't configure it, Print Preview uses the most recently used printer as the default destination choice. If you enable this policy, Print Preview uses the OS system default printer as the default destination choice.

When printing to a non-PostScript printer on Windows, sometimes print jobs need to be rasterized to print correctly. If you set this policy to 'Full' or don't configure it, Microsoft Edge will do full page rasterization if necessary. If you set this policy to 'Fast', Microsoft Edge will reduce the amount of rasterization which can help reduce print job sizes and increase printing speed. When printing a PDF using the Print to image option, it can be beneficial to specify a print resolution other than a device's printer setting or the PDF default.

A high resolution will significantly increase the processing and printing time while a low resolution can lead to poor imaging quality. If you set this policy, it allows a particular resolution to be specified for use when rasterizing PDFs for printing. If you set this policy to zero or don't configure it, the system default resolution will be used during rasterization of page images. Placing all printer types on the deny list effectively disables printing, because there's no print destination for documents.

If you don't configure this policy, or the printer list is empty, all printer types are discoverable.

Printer destinations include extension printers and local printers. Extension printers are also known as print provider destinations, and include any destination that belongs to a Microsoft Edge extension.

Local printers are also known as native printing destinations, and include destinations available to the local machine and shared network printers. In Microsoft version 93 or later, if you set this policy to 'pdf' it also disables the 'save as Pdf' option from the right click context menu.

Restricts background graphics printing mode. If this policy isn't set there's no restriction on printing background graphics. Overrides the last used setting for printing background graphics. If you enable this setting, background graphics printing is enabled. If you disable this setting, background graphics printing is disabled. If you disable this policy, users can't print from Microsoft Edge.

Printing is disabled in the wrench menu, extensions, JavaScript applications, and so on. Users can still print from plug-ins that bypass Microsoft Edge while printing. For example, certain Adobe Flash applications have the print option in their context menu, which isn't covered by this policy.

It describes the desired height and width in micrometers. Policy that violates these rules is ignored. If you disable or don't configure this policy, users can decide whether to print webpages in Portrait or Landscape layout.

If you enable this policy, Microsoft Edge opens the system print dialog instead of the built-in print preview when a user prints a page. If you don't configure or disable this policy, print commands trigger the Microsoft Edge print preview screen.

Controls whether insecure websites are allowed to make requests to more-private network endpoints. This policy relates to the Private Network Access specification. Otherwise, it will be treated as an insecure context. When this policy is either not set or set to false, the default behavior for requests from insecure contexts to more-private network endpoints will depend on the user's personal configuration for the BlockInsecurePrivateNetworkRequests feature, which may be set by a field trial or on the command line.

When this policy is set to true, insecure websites are allowed to make requests to any network endpoint, subject to other cross-origin checks. List of URL patterns. Private network requests initiated from insecure websites served by matching origins are allowed. For origins not covered by the patterns specified here, the global default value will be used either from the InsecurePrivateNetworkRequestsAllowed policy, if it is set, or the user's personal configuration otherwise.

Note that this policy only affects insecure origins, so secure origins e. It is currently supported but will become obsolete in a future release.

This policy is deprecated, use ProxySettings instead. It won't work in Microsoft Edge version If you selected any other mode for configuring proxy policies, don't enable or configure this policy. If you enable this policy, you can create a list of hosts for which Microsoft Edge doesn't use a proxy.

If you don't configure this policy, no list of hosts is created for which Microsoft Edge bypasses a proxy. Leave this policy unconfigured if you've specified any other method for setting proxy policies. If you set this policy to Enabled you can specify the proxy server Microsoft Edge uses and prevents users from changing proxy settings. Microsoft Edge ignores all proxy-related options specified from the command line. The policy is only applied if the ProxySettings policy isn't specified.

If you enable this policy, you can specify the URL for a PAC file, which defines how the browser automatically chooses the appropriate proxy server for fetching a particular website.

If you disable or don't configure this policy, no PAC file is specified. If you disable or don't configure this policy, users can choose their own proxy settings while in this proxy mode. If you enable this policy, Microsoft Edge ignores all proxy-related options specified from the command line. Setting the ProxySettings policy accepts the following fields:.

Define a list of sites, based on URL patterns, that are not allowed to be put to sleep by sleeping tabs. If the policy SleepingTabsEnabled is disabled, this list is not used and no sites will be put to sleep automatically. If you don't configure this policy, all sites will be eligible to be put to sleep unless the user's personal configuration blocks them.

This policy setting lets you configure whether to turn on sleeping tabs. Sleeping tabs reduces CPU, battery, and memory usage by putting idle background tabs to sleep. Microsoft Edge uses heuristics to avoid putting tabs to sleep that do useful work in the background, such as display notifications, play sound, and stream video.

By default, sleeping tabs is turned on. Individual sites may be blocked from being put to sleep by configuring the policy SleepingTabsBlockedForUrls. This policy setting lets you configure the timeout, in seconds, after which inactive background tabs will be automatically put to sleep if sleeping tabs is enabled.

By default, this timeout is 7, seconds 2 hours. Tabs are only put to sleep automatically when the policy SleepingTabsEnabled is enabled or is not configured and the user has enabled the sleeping tabs setting. If you disable or don't configure this policy, Microsoft Edge will continue using the SmartScreen implementation from old library libSmartScreen. This temporary policy was created to support the update of a new SmartScreen client. This policy will be deprecated and removed along with the legacy client.

This policy setting lets you decide whether users can override the Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warnings about potentially malicious websites. If you enable this setting, users can't ignore Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warnings and they are blocked from continuing to the site.

If you disable or don't configure this setting, users can ignore Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warnings and continue to the site. This policy lets you determine whether users can override Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warnings about unverified downloads.

If you enable this policy, users in your organization can't ignore Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warnings, and they're prevented from completing the unverified downloads.

If you disable or don't configure this policy, users can ignore Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warnings and complete unverified downloads. Configure the list of Microsoft Defender SmartScreen trusted domains. This means: Microsoft Defender SmartScreen won't check for potentially malicious resources like phishing software and other malware if the source URLs match these domains. The Microsoft Defender SmartScreen download protection service won't check downloads hosted on these domains.

If you enable this policy, Microsoft Defender SmartScreen trusts these domains. If you disable or don't set this policy, default Microsoft Defender SmartScreen protection is applied to all resources. Also note that this policy does not apply if your organization has enabled Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection.

You must configure your allow and block lists in Microsoft Defender Security Center instead. This policy setting lets you configure whether to turn on Microsoft Defender SmartScreen. Microsoft Defender SmartScreen provides warning messages to help protect your users from potential phishing scams and malicious software. By default, Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is turned on.

If you don't configure this setting, users can choose whether to use Microsoft Defender SmartScreen. This policy setting lets you configure whether Microsoft Defender SmartScreen checks download reputation from a trusted source.

If you enable or don't configure this setting, Microsoft Defender SmartScreen checks the download's reputation regardless of source. If you disable this setting, Microsoft Defender SmartScreen doesn't check the download's reputation when downloading from a trusted source.

This policy is available only on Windows instances that are joined to a Microsoft Active Directory domain, Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise instances that enrolled for device management.

This policy setting lets you configure whether to turn on blocking for potentially unwanted apps with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen. Potentially unwanted app blocking with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen provides warning messages to help protect users from adware, coin miners, bundleware, and other low-reputation apps that are hosted by websites.

Potentially unwanted app blocking with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is turned off by default. If you enable this setting, potentially unwanted app blocking with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is turned on. If you disable this setting, potentially unwanted app blocking with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is turned off. If you don't configure this setting, users can choose whether to use potentially unwanted app blocking with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen.

Configures the default home page in Microsoft Edge. You can set the home page to a URL you specify or to the new tab page. If you enable this policy, the Home button is set to the new tab page as configured by the user or with the policy NewTabPageLocation and the URL set with the policy HomepageLocation is not taken into consideration. If you disable this policy, the Home button is the set URL as configured by the user or as configured in the policy HomepageLocation.

If you don't configure this policy, users can choose whether the set URL or the new tab page is their home page. This policy is available only on Windows instances that are joined to a Microsoft Active Directory domain or Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise instances enrolled for device management. The home page is the page opened by the Home button.

The pages that open on startup are controlled by the RestoreOnStartup policies. By default, the Home button will open the new tab page as configured by the user or with the policy NewTabPageLocation , and the user will be able to choose between the URL configured by this policy and the new tab page. If you enable this policy, users can't change their home page URL, but they can choose the behavior for the Home button to open either the set URL or the new tab page.

If you disable or don't configure this policy, users can choose their own home page, as long as the HomepageIsNewTabPage policy isn't enabled. This policy is available only on Windows instances that are joined to a Microsoft Active Directory domain, Windows 10 Pro, or Enterprise instances enrolled for device management.

You can configure which types of background image that are allowed on the new tab page layout in Microsoft Edge. This policy didn't work as expected due to changes in operational requirements.

Therefore it's obsolete and should not be used. The policy should be configured as a string that expresses the logo s in JSON format. You configure this policy by specifying the URL from which Microsoft Edge can download the logo and its cryptographic hash SHA , which is used to verify the integrity of the download.

The logo is downloaded and cached, and it will be redownloaded whenever the URL or the hash changes. The URL must be accessible without any authentication. We recommend a horizontal logo with a transparent background that is left-aligned and vertically centered. The logo should have a minimum height of 32 pixels and an aspect ratio from to If you enable this policy, Microsoft Edge downloads and shows the specified logo s on the new tab page. Users can't override or hide the logo s. If you disable or don't configure this policy, Microsoft Edge will show no company logo or a Microsoft logo on the new tab page.

If you enable or don't configure this policy, Microsoft Edge displays Microsoft News content on the new tab page. The user can choose different display options for the content, including but not limited to Content off, Content visible on scroll, Headings only, and Content visible. Enabling this policy doesn't force content to be visible - the user can continue to set their own preferred content position.

If you disable this policy, Microsoft Edge does not display Microsoft News content on the new tab page, the Content control in the NTP settings flyout is disabled and set to 'Content off'.

This policy only applies for Microsoft Edge local user profiles, profiles signed in using a Microsoft Account, and profiles signed in using Active Directory. To configure the Enterprise new tab page for profiles signed in using Azure Active Directory, use the M admin portal. If you set this policy to false or don't configure it, the default top site tiles remain visible.

The recommended version of this policy does not currently work and functions exactly like the mandatory version. This policy determines the page that's opened when new tabs are created including when new windows are opened.