Q: safari download automatically

Hi...

See if this helps...

From your Safari menu bar top of your screen click Safari > Preferences then select the General tab.

At the bottom of the General tab deslect:  Open "safe" files after downloading

Quit then relaunch Safari to test.

What kind of files are these? Do they download when you click a link to them?

It would be normal for a Word document to download when you click on a link to it. A PDF might open in the browser or download as a file, depending on the type of link.

Every time you open what? The page? If a file downloads automatically when you merely open a page, without clicking anything, that's a misuse of JavaScript. Disable it before loading, or install a Safari extension such as JavaScript Blacklist that blocks it selectively.

I am a former Windows user too, and I agree -- I'm tired of having to sift through millions of files in my downloads folder every time I simply want to view a file from online. I'd rather just *open* up a word/pdf file (to view and manually save, if I choose) without having Safari download it automatically.

Did you ever figure out how to do this? I don't use IE, but Firefox has this option too.