Hi Diana,
Sorry to hear about the adverse drug reaction, I hope you recover soon.
I prefer to use Safari, but it is a personal choice.
To Import your Firefox Bookmarks into Safari, you first need to Export your
Firefox Bookmarks.
A) Export bookmarks from Firefox:
1. On the menu bar, click Bookmarks and select Show All Bookmarks to open
the Library window.
2. From the toolbar on the Library window, click  Import and Backup and
choose Export Bookmarks to HTML
3. In the Export Bookmarks File window that opens, choose a location to
save the file, which is named bookmarks.html by default.
The desktop is usually a good spot, but any place that is easy to
remember will work.
4. Click the Save button. The Export Bookmarks File window will close.
5. Close the Library window.
Your bookmarks are successfully exported from Firefox, to import them into
Safari proceed to the next section.
B) Import bookmarks into Safari:
1. Start Safari
2. On the menu bar, click on the File menu and choose Import Bookmarks....
3. Find the file you saved from Firefox and click Import.

Click on the Bookmarks menu to ensure all of your bookmarks have been
successfully imported.
If you still prefer to use Firefox, when I have more time, I’ll send you
details on what could be happening to cause the PDF download problem.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 14/02/2012, at 3:37 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote:
> Hi Ronni
>
> I was using Firefox 10.0. I tried Safari, no problems, file opened on screen
> and I saved it as a PDF.
>
> I went back to Firefox and did some more investigation. Right click does not
> give the option 'Save As'.
>
> I tried 'Open Link in New Tab' and ' Open Link in New Window' and was
> rewarded with a blank page.
>
> The only other options are:
> Bookmark This Link
> Save Link As...
> Send Link...
> Copy Link Location
> Inspect Element
>
> I did have Firefox set to ask where to save the file, when I looked in the
> Preferences neither option was selected so I checked 'Downloads' and tried
> again. It did not open the download window and when I looked in the Downloads
> Folder there were 7 copies of the PDF. I tried them and they all opened. I
> looked again at the Downloads window and there were 7 'failed' with no file
> size.
>
> I then reopened the Downloads Folder and all 7 files have disappeared, they
> are still showing as failed in the Downloads window. But searching 'This Mac'
> in Finder shows none!
>
> A bit scary! I gave up Safari a number of OS ago but I can't remember why.
> Maybe I should re-embrace Safari?
>
> How do I get my bookmarks from Firefox into Safari? Normally I should be able
> to find this out for myself but last week I ended up in RPH with an adverse
> drug reaction and I am still rather 'off the air'!
>
> Regards Diana
>
> On 14/02/2012, at 2:09 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
>
>> Hi Diana,
>>
>> Are you downloading the PDF in Safari?
>> Is this only happening with one particular PDF or all PDFs?
>>
>> Before you reply a couple of things you could try:
>>
>> Try ‘Save As’ and see if that allows you to download the PDF.
>> Right-click or control-click anywhere in the PDF element and select Save PDF
>> As... from the contextual menu.
>>
>> What setting do you have in Safari > Preferences > General ‘Save downloaded
>> files to': Downloads?
>> Could be pointing to an invalid directory, try changing it to Desktop & see
>> if it downloads correctly and can be opened.
>>
>> If it can you could try changing it back to downloads and see if it works
>> then.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ronni
>>
>> On 14/02/2012, at 12:29 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote:
>>
>>> Hi List
>>>
>>> I keep getting an error message when I try to download a PDF. It says:
>>>
>>> Download Error
>>>
>>> /Users/diana/Downloads/filename.pdf could not be opened because an unknown
>>> error occurred.
>>>
>>> Try saving to disk first then opening the file.
>>>
>>> I thought I was saving it to disk! I can view it under Quick View but that
>>> does not allow me to save it as a PDF. Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> MacBookPro 10.6.8
>>>
>>> Best wishes to all from Diana
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