Hi all, Scott's tip of forcing Safari to download is also useful for avoiding "Safari busy" messages and freezes. Here's the link to an earlier list discussion thread about different ways to force downloads, including using option-click on a link. Some general purpose utilities, like Onyx, can also change the default action for specific file types (like PDF files) to download instead of display in web pages.
http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg19660.html Cheers, Esther On Nov 27, 2007, at 08:41AM, Cara Quinn wrote: > Woohoo! Scott, thankie for the tip! > >Roc on! > >Smiles, > >ModGirl / C-Quinn / Crazy Blonde! :) > > >On Nov 27, 2007, at 7:01 AM, Scott Chesworth wrote: > >> another way to mittigate content opening automatically is to hold >> option when you enter on whatever element will trigger your >> download. This overrides whatever Safari was planning to do and >> forces a download. Of course, it'll only work on content that the >> folks have allowed to be downloaded at the site end of the equation, >> but its handy to know all the same. >> >> Hope that helps someone >> Scott >> >>
