you can tell safari through the gui not to download files unless confirmed.
to do this, open safari prefs, uncheck the box that says open saved files after downloading. I don't know if it will work with pdfs or not, but it might.
On Oct 28, 2007, at 5:47 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:Could safari's idea of what to use to handle pdf files be modified say with a mailcap entry that told it to use wget -b file.pdf whenever a pdf file were found? I'm thinking to perhaps cause safari to leave these files alone entirely and have another tool like wget download them in the background. That's what that -b switch does and wget downloads until you have an exact copy by default.
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, David Poehlman wrote:
I wish we could. On Oct 27, 2007, at 10:53 PM, Jane Jordan (gmail) wrote:Couldn't we just set some sort of preference in Safari to automatically download .pdf files instead of attempting to open them? The browser wouldn't freeze at all, then.Jane On Oct 27, 2007, at 9:12 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:The safari freeze still occurs on large pdf files. Small (1-2 page pf files) will most of the time behave. Really, the best way to fix this is just to right click (ctrl-click) on the file name, and dowload the pdf file, then open it with preview.> > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com> > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Webinterface > at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover>Click on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.comManage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxwith 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Webinterface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceoverClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.comManage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxwith 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Webinterface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceoverClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.com Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxwith 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
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