Given it is a real window it can be scrolled (and searched), and it can potentially show status of many more downloads and allow you to find and access them much easier than you can do now with a download bar at the bottom. Is there any rational reason why a sidebar pinned on the right like in Microsoft Edge wouldn't work for you? As shown in the screenshots above, the download menu can be pinned, which turns it into a pane docked to the right edge of browser window. However, I also like to see my downloads at the bottom. I love bottom download bar, because I can easily monitor the current downloads situation. If that prompt cannot be made more intelligent and useful, then at least having an option to whitelist sites and extensions and import/export said whitelist would be really nice to have. In Microsoft Edge, they have added a policy setting where one can whitelist file extensions and domains so that warning is not displayed when downloading files with whitelisted extensions from whitelisted domains. Useless - Unlike the browser prompt, the operating system prompt at least provides some information (application publisher and whether it has a valid digital signature) which can help the user to decide whether to proceed or not. Furthermore, all downloaded files are saved with Mark Of The Web, so the user will get a warning from Windows Explorer when they try to open the file / run the program. Pointless (at least on Windows platform) - Windows has built-in antivirus since 2013. While we are at the subject of downloads, I would love to be able to disable the warning prompt for downloads even if that option is burried somewhere in flags or advanced settings.Īnnoying - It is totally indiscriminate (for example it warns you that NVIDIA driver setup can harm your computer), and IMO it just leads to user fatigue, which in turn leads to user being trained to click Keep / OK / Yes buttons without thinking. I would say that those seemingly small changes lead to considerably improved end-user experience compared to bare Chromium download interface. Right click on a download item results in this context menu: Pin icon results in docking to the right side: I initially requested this feature on Reddit here, and some people argued that better built-in download manager is just a cosmetic feature - below is my rationale why it is much more than that.īetter download manager UI and UX in the browser itself reduces the risk to security and privacy associated with users having to install shady browser extensions from poorly curated Chrome Web Store.ĭownload extensions seem to be one of the prime targets of malicious actors - so many people are looking for download manager extensions because the Chromium built-in download manager sucks, and Microsoft did well to recognize and address that concern so Here are the screenshots as requested.ĭownload settings (note that it is possible also to disable menu popping up when the download starts, I like that):īuilt-in downloads page (please note categories on the left and ignore "managed by your organization bar, it is the result of me configuring GPO settings):ĭownload button and menu (mouse hover over an item shows icons to open folder and remove download, or to retry cancelled or failed download): The rest of downloads UI is the same (there is still Downloads page), and I really wish if Brave would take that particular feature from Microsoft Edge, because I really dislike the download bar at the bottom of the browser window. Instead of annoying bar on the bottom of the window which takes nearly 1/12 of the client area height, they have a toolbar button and a nice menu that opens up when you click it which shows the downloads and common actions for them. After using Chrome and Firefox for a while, I tried Microsoft Edge recently and even though I am not going to use it because of privacy concerns (I started using Brave instead), there is one feature Microsoft implemented differently than other Chromium-based browsers which I really like - the downloads UI.
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