can't able to download any extension idk why

[krrish612]

Type: Bug

same as given above

VS Code version: Code 1.96.4 (cd4ee3b1c348a13bafd8f9ad8060705f6d4b9cba, 2025-01-16T00:16:19.038Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631
Modes:

[RanaUniverse]

i was also facing this issue from the beginning of the 2025 January

i am not finding any solution for this, need these offline installation in some of my machine, please help

i am here in village internet is not available easily sobi used to download those and install in the computers.
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[Neelima10735584]

Hi @krrish612 ,

Thank you very much for your feedback.

We are constantly reviewing features on the VS Marketplace with the goal of improving key features and removing features that are not key to the developer workflow. Based on our data and analysis, "Download Extension" was not part of the inner developer flow that we are constantly trying to optimize, so we decided to no longer support it.

VS Code allows right click context menu to download a vsix in the extension search view, example image”

Regards,
VS Marketplace Team

[ilkkapoutanen-61n]

@Neelima10735584 , this is not useful advice in environments where VS Code runs on a machine with no internet, and the machine with internet cannot run VS code at all for one reason or another. I work with one such environment, along with many colleagues, and this change is blocking all extension updates and new extension installs.

[isidorn]

Closing as duplicate of #1135 and we can continue the discussion there

[danieliser]

@isidorn Unfortunately you cannot continue the discussion there because you guys simply don't want to.

Recently the direct download button was removed for "reasons": #1135 (comment)

The stated reason was

One of the main reasons for the removal of the Download Extension button was that it was not supporting pre-release extensions, and was a constant source of user confusion. E.g. users want to download the latest release version of the extension, but the button downloads the highest version, which is the pre-release version

Why not just add better UI/UX?

The only reason you would remove it completely is if nobody was using it, clearly untrue.... OR if the ones using it weren't using your own IDE.

This change has all the appearances of being intentionally directed at users of VS code competitors, but has the sad and very troubling side effect of breaking normal usage for many of us long time VS Code users as well.

And if it is a play at competitors, what say if any do the thousands of developers who contributed open-source extensions intending them to available to anyone using the open-source VSC platform?

To me this bolded part in the initial response is a bit telling:

Based on our data and analysis, "Download Extension" was not part of the inner developer flow that we are constantly trying to optimize, so we decided to no longer support it.

Last I checked, there is just a "developer flow". The specific use of the word inner there clearly indicates a delineation between your developers and developers at large.

I really hope I'm wrong and we get swift action on resolving this.