Just noticed that I can't download stuff in Safari...no problems using Opera. It's annoying because Safari is my favourite browser. I haven't a clue what's wrong or how to troubleshoot it as I'm new to Mac. I'm using a black Macbook with Mac OS X 10.4.11. Any ideas as to where I might look for the problem?
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Download problems in Safari
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Woh...what a mess. I have four browsers, Safari (Favourite), FF, Camino and Opera and Opera is the only one that will download anything for me. This evening, I tried to download Miro using Safari and when that failed, I moved on to Opera; it worked. Later, as an experiment, I tried to download Adium using Safari, FF and Camino.
This is what happens...the blue pinstripe colour will start in the url bar and after a brief instant it will quit. It will only move a fraction of the way across the url bar, maybe 1/10 of the way and then stop. Clicking the 'manual download' produces the same result. The blue pinstripe gets to the second / in http:// and then stops and disappears.
In Camino and Firefox, I get redirected back to the Google search-page, it's a real pain. Is there anyting I can do? Any ideas anyone?
This is what happens...the blue pinstripe colour will start in the url bar and after a brief instant it will quit. It will only move a fraction of the way across the url bar, maybe 1/10 of the way and then stop. Clicking the 'manual download' produces the same result. The blue pinstripe gets to the second / in http:// and then stops and disappears.
In Camino and Firefox, I get redirected back to the Google search-page, it's a real pain. Is there anyting I can do? Any ideas anyone?
The only thing I did that I can think of is that I had a peep at the ipTables using the command: man ipfw in terminal. When I went to close the consol it said:
Closing this window will terminate the following processes inside it: login, bash, man, sh, sh, groff, less, troff, grotty
I naturally closed the terminal taking care not to change anything. I don't think that this was enough to cause the problem.
Closing this window will terminate the following processes inside it: login, bash, man, sh, sh, groff, less, troff, grotty
I naturally closed the terminal taking care not to change anything. I don't think that this was enough to cause the problem.
hi all,
ive also had this same problem with safari; I couldn't download any of the zip,dmg,tar... compressed file formats and some more media specific ones.
The thing is that in my case my old download managers' .plists were conflicting with the current one (iGetter, so happy with it) anyways heres what u do:
- go into ~/users/library/preferences and look for the old Download managers' .com's and .plists or any kind of leftover property list (plist, get it?).
- if that didn't solve it (which in my case didn't because i was trying out A LOT of download managers, folx, speeddownload,download manager etc.) go into ~/users/library/internet plug-ins/ and delete the files of the managers in there. Mine had only 4 to my suprise and i just deleted one...of folx's.
Hope that helps.
ive also had this same problem with safari; I couldn't download any of the zip,dmg,tar... compressed file formats and some more media specific ones.
The thing is that in my case my old download managers' .plists were conflicting with the current one (iGetter, so happy with it) anyways heres what u do:
- go into ~/users/library/preferences and look for the old Download managers' .com's and .plists or any kind of leftover property list (plist, get it?).
- if that didn't solve it (which in my case didn't because i was trying out A LOT of download managers, folx, speeddownload,download manager etc.) go into ~/users/library/internet plug-ins/ and delete the files of the managers in there. Mine had only 4 to my suprise and i just deleted one...of folx's.
Hope that helps.