scottyincali
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Mac OS X

Q: Images download instead of displaying in Safari

Hi, I'm a web site publisher and often I have to look at just an image that is on the web site. Images display fine in Safari when I load a page, but if I load just the image (e.g. www.somewebsite.com/image.jpg), Safari downloads the image to my downloads folder instead of displaying it within the browser. Can I change this so that Safari displays the image in Safari itself. If I use Firefox, the images shows in the browser.

 

Thanks,

 

-Scott

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)

Posted on Apr 17, 2016 9:25 AM

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Q: Images download instead of displaying in Safari

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  • by scottyincali,

    scottyincali scottyincali May 12, 2016 11:23 AM in response to scottyincali
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    Mac OS X
    May 12, 2016 11:23 AM in response to scottyincali

    Someone on the MacRumors.com forum suggested I right-click on the image link and choose open in tab or window, but that results in the same thing. The image is downloaded instead of shown in Safari.

     

    fyi,

     

    -Scott

  • by Carolyn Samit,

    Carolyn Samit Carolyn Samit May 12, 2016 12:12 PM in response to scottyincali
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    May 12, 2016 12:12 PM in response to scottyincali

    "Safari downloads the image to my downloads folder folder instead of displaying it within the browser"

     

     

    You may have a Safari extension or third party plug-in installed that's causing a conflict. It’s easy to troubleshoot.

     

     

    From the Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Extensions tab. Uninstall one extension at a time, quit and relaunch Safari to test.

     

     

    If it's not an extensions issue, try troubleshooting third party plug-ins.

     

    Back to Safari > Preferences. This time select the Security tab. Deselect:  Allow plug-ins. Quit and relaunch Safari to test.

     

    If that made a difference, instructions for troubleshooting plugins here.

  • by scottyincali,

    scottyincali scottyincali May 13, 2016 11:36 AM in response to Carolyn Samit
    Level 1 (8 points)
    Mac OS X
    May 13, 2016 11:36 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

    Seems to be an error with my Apache server not serving out the right headers:

     

    [x@saabnet class]# curl -I http://www.saabnet.com/tsn/class/131015ccaarsm.jpg

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK

    Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 18:19:00 GMT

    Server: Apache/2.2.25 (Unix)

    X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.9

    Connection: close

    Content-Type: image/jpg

     

    I'm asking in an Apache forum why this might be because other areas of my server do serve the right headers.

     

    Thanks,

     

    -Scott