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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / February 2005Safari Opens "Safe" Files...When?
Am I missing something with the "safe" files thing? Despite the description of a "safe" file in the prefs, Safari has never decoded a .hqx, .bin, .sit, .sitx, or .zip file, or *any* variety of compressed file I've ever downloaded. I swear, I've never used a browser so bereft of configuration options than Safari. And the "Advanced" options? Whoa! Look out! M.I.T. grads only! > Am I missing something with the "safe" files thing? Despite the > description of a "safe" file in the prefs, Safari has never decoded a > .hqx, .bin, .sit, .sitx, or .zip file, or *any* variety of compressed > file I've ever downloaded. Works fine here. > I swear, I've never used a browser so bereft > of configuration options than Safari. And the "Advanced" options? Whoa! > Look out! M.I.T. grads only! You might want to investigate Firefox or OmniWeb.  SignatureJerry Kindall, Seattle, WA <http://www.jerrykindall.com/> Send only plain text messages under 32K to the Reply-To address. This mailbox is filtered aggressively to thwart spam and viruses. [...] > I swear, I've never used a browser so bereft > of configuration options than Safari. If you want configurability try iCab. SignatureSander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/> Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!" PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!" > Am I missing something with the "safe" files thing? Despite the > description of a "safe" file in the prefs, Safari has never decoded a > .hqx, .bin, .sit, .sitx, or .zip file, or *any* variety of compressed > file I've ever downloaded. I swear, I've never used a browser so > bereft of configuration options than Safari. And the "Advanced" > options? Whoa! Look out! M.I.T. grads only! There's a tradeoff -- open the files automatically and you complain if it's a worm or virus. I probably will open them if you check the "open safe" option, and have an application marked to handle them. You can do that from the Finder -- just select the file, "Get Info" and pick the application you want. Safari designers apparently figured you didn't want to have to do that for each application. On the other hand, if you also find that to be a pain, you can look for "Default Apps" or, maybe "More Internet" -- I don't recall exactly what More Internet does. Default Apps seems to give you the choices you recall from Netscape/Mozilla/etc, at least on other platforms. I'm sure if I'm too far off, someone will leap on it. joe |
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