Safari won't download

[Mark Dintenfass]

The last few days when I try to download shareware applications with
Safari (from reputable sites), the operation produces a black Safari
window and no download. I'm running Safari 4.0.4 on a Mac Pro quad core
with 10.6.2. I have Adblock installed, but turning it off didn't change
the behavior, nor did unchecking the Block Pop-Up Windows command.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you.

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[Fred McKenzie]

In article <221220090735218995%mdint...@xxnew.rr.com>,
Mark Dintenfass <mdint...@xxnew.rr.com> wrote:

> The last few days when I try to download shareware applications with
> Safari (from reputable sites), the operation produces a black Safari
> window and no download.

Mark-

It sounds as if Safari is confused, and is attempting to open the
downloaded file as a web page. If so, it is possibly a problem at the
web site rather than in Safari.

If you right-click (Control Click) on the URL and choose "Download
Linked File As", do you have the same problem?

Fred

[Mark Dintenfass]

In article <fmmck-0D8E76....@nntp.aioe.org>, Fred McKenzie
<fm...@aol.com> wrote:

Right-clicking had solved the problem until today, when I tried to
download something from CNET. Right-clicking and selecting download
ended up downloading the link rather than the app, probably because
that site uses some complicated two-step operation to get you to the
download.

I searched Apple's discussions and found some discussion of what seems
to be the same problem, but no clear solution.

Thanks for the advice, though.