How do I stop Preview from Auto Opening?

Whenever I am on facebook or on the internet and I click to donload a file it downloads to my downloads folder but then the second it finished preview pops up with the picture open. How do i stop preview from doing this?

MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Apr 17, 2012 6:23 PM

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Posted on Apr 17, 2012 9:43 PM

If you are using Safari, look at Safari > Preferences > General and make sure 'Open "safe" files after downloading' is not checked. Other browsers should have a similar setting in their preferences.

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How do I stop Preview from Auto Opening?

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