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Better yet, you can just hold down alt when you click. Euan Euan 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. Dennis Dennis 3 3 gold badges 6 6 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. Disabling Adobe's plugin is my favorite thing to do after installing Adobe Reader. The Preview plugin is lighter in my experience. I'm using safari Erik Schmidt Erik Schmidt 3 3 bronze badges. If you want to download any of those files follow these steps: 1 Click on the Firefox menu and select Preferences 2 In the window that opens click on the Applications tab 3 In the column named Content Type scroll down to the type of content you are trying to download or type the file type in the search field 5 When you find it, click on the action popup to the right and change it from Preview in Safari to Save file 6 Try the pasting the URL of the file you want to download into the browser again and it should now start to download or ask you where to save it!

Jawa 2, 7 7 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges. Gavin Banks Gavin Banks You lost me at Firefox. Still there after all these years. Welcome to Ask Different. We like answers to be more than just a single line. Please review our help section How to Answer on writing good answers to questions — Allan. Ben Ben 1.

Provides a work around, but does not answer the actual question of whether or not a setting is available. Community Bot 1. Peter Peter Tried it. Doesn't work. This option is for something different -- it controls whether downloaded files are opened automatically or not. The Overflow Blog.

Podcast Who is building clouds for the independent developer? Exploding turkeys and how not to thaw your frozen bird: Top turkey questions Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Reducing the weight of our footer. Download music, PDFs , software, and other items by clicking links on webpages. Important: If a download contains software, an alert appears when you open the item. In the Safari app on your Mac, click anything identified as a download link, or Control-click an image or other object on the page.

See Optimize storage space on your Mac. If Safari is still downloading the item, wait for it to finish. If the download is paused, resume it. Show the downloads list by clicking the Show Downloads button , then click the Resume button for the paused download. Make sure you have the app needed to open the file. Posted on Aug 16, PM. Thanks for this. I have given up and started to use Chrome for any downloaded material.

So I will perhaps be able to leave Chrome behind. Aug 26, PM. Page content loaded. Although I cannot use the "File - Save As" or "File - Print" features on the Mac's toolbar, I found out that if I scrolled to the bottom of the webpage showing the PDF that I want to download or print, a toolbar appears that has printing and downloading links, which do allow downloading or printing of the PDF.

Aug 18, PM. This is a follow-up to my last follow-up. They tried to reacreate the situation on their in-store computers using Safari, but couldn't. They asked me to go home, bring up the website where I was having the problem, and then call them. When I was on the telephone with them, they had me go up to the "Help" link in the tool bar in Safari. When you open that link, there are four items showing, a "Search" window, a "Safari Help" link, an "Acknowledgements" link, and an "Installed Plug-ins" link that they instructed me to click on.

When that "Installed Plug-ins" link opened, a chart showing all of my plug-ins popped up, filling the entire screen. They asked if there were any Adobe plug-ins showing, I told them yes. They instructed me to drag all of the Adobe plug-ins to the Trash, which I did. That also worked like it should. So, check to see if have any Adobe internet plug-ins. If so, you should be able to get Safari to work as it should by deleting the Adobe plug-ins.

I had been having a similar problem with Safari pdf files despite downloading the latest Adobe Reader XI. I would constantly get messages - There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired. And I would get a blank page when I tried to print the pdf if I tried printing from the Safari web page using File - Print from the top toolbar on my laptop.