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I think, if you press "Open" in IE on the file download dialog, it goes to temp. Then, the default for zips is to extract to the same folder. So, the original

I think, if you press "Open" in IE on the file download dialog, it goes to temp. Then, the default for zips is to extract to the same folder. So, the original mistake was offering people to open downloads without saving them first. I'm pretty sure they removed that later, around the time "mark of the web" was added (a metadata on downloaded files that triggered extra/different confirmation dialogs on opening the file).

wannacboatmovie 3y ago
That 'mistake' has become so widely used and depended on, corporate IT departments complained so loudly that Microsoft was forced to add that feature into Edge after IE was retired. I'm not sure if it was backported to Chrome or remains an Edge-unique feature.