Google Chrome 69 on Android brings new downloads UI with renaming and changing downloads folder

Google's mobile web browser, Chrome, can do most of what everyone wants when it comes to navigating through a website. The engineers in Mountain View feel the application can be improved so much more and a lot of us within the community can agree. Last year, we found that Google was experimenting with a new "Chrome Home" feature that would redesign the new tab page, which has continued to evolve throughout this year. Still, the company has a long way to go before the Android version of Google Chrome reaches feature parity to its desktop counterpart. The latest activity in the Chromium Gerrit indicates that the application will soon let you rename files and choose a folder for downloads.

It was December of last year when our Editor-in-chief, Mishaal Rahman, revealed some pieces of information that he had uncovered with Google Chrome. First, we learned that Google was working on adding support for parallel downloading through their Google Chrome application. This was slated for release in version 64 of the application, but it was only being tested with the beta version of the application. The feature was to create 3 parallel jobs to speed up the download process, which has proven to increase download speeds from sources that support it.

That same month we also discovered that work was being done to enhance the standard download routine in Google Chrome. Currently, when you click a link for something that is downloaded automatically, it goes into the "Downloads" folder without any consent from you. Maybe you wanted to rename that file or maybe you wanted it to go into another folder altogether. At the time it required you to be on the nightly branch of Google Chrome and enable the hidden chrome://flags#enable-downloads-location-change flag, but now the feature has progressed.

These new options for downloading via Google Chrome are currently available in the developer and canary version of the web browser and is it actually enabled by default. It can be disabled with the DownloadHomeModern flag. However, at this time it seems like the ability to change the download folder isn't currently working. You can see the new option in the screenshots below.

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