Be it Chrome’s Tab Grouping, Edge’s new URL copy-paste style, Chrome’s removal of Open in New Tab option in Android, Firefox’s Proton UI, or Chrome’s Profile Selector screen, all of these were uncalled changes that degraded the entire user interface. And now, you could Edge’s New Downloads Menu to this list. Earlier when you downloaded a file, it would just be shown in the bottom download bar. However, it has now been given a more prominent spot- right next to the address bar.
But that Downloads icon is itself hidden by default. You will have to press the Ctrl+J to bring up it or carry out a couple of other steps to pin that icon up there. Apart from that, as and when you start downloading a file, that large download menu would automatically open up and will be there till you have downloaded that file. This menu ends up taking a considerable portion of the screen and also tends to hide most of the on-screen contents. Moreover, if you prefer the drag and drop feature- such as directly dragging an image from the downloads bar to a photo editor- then it would now be quite a challenging task. All in all, there seems no plausible reasoning behind the introduction of this change. Fortunately, there does tend to exist a tweak through which you could bring back the old download menu in Microsoft Edge. And this guide shall make you aware of just that. So without further ado, let’s get started.
How to Bring Back the Old Download Menu in Microsoft Edge
That’s it. These were the steps to bring back the old download menu in Microsoft Edge. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.
Update 1 [September 2021]: Target Tweak Doesn’t Work?
It seems Microsoft has now patched this target workaround. If you add the –disable-features=msDownloadsHub parameter at the end of the Edge Target field, it wouldn’t bring back the old downloads UI. So it seems the browser has made it mandatory for all to adapt to this change, either willingly or unwillingly. However, if this is the way forward then you could at least minimize its disruptive impact by disabling its behavior to pop up every time when you begin downloading a file. Here’s how it could be done: So this was all from this latest update surrounding the method to bring back the old download menu in Microsoft Edge. We will continuously update this guide with new developments as and when they get live.
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