I hate having my Internet Browser display PDF files when I click on them. I much prefer them to be downloaded. Here are two commands that changes this default behavior. in terminal (as Admin or Root user) type: defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES Essentially you’re removing PDF Support from Safari so that it doesn’t [...]

Apple released Safari 4.0 beta recently. So far I mostly like what I see. My issue with Facebook Chat and Adium seems to be fixed. The new default “home” page called Top Sites, which is a cross between Cover Flow and the bookmarks/history page is a bit annoying because it’s not as customizable as I [...]

A recent problem has cropped up with the latest version of Safari, 3.2.1 and Leopard 10.5.6. When using Facebook (and possibly other websites such as Last.fm, Gmail, and Twitter, that require authentication to login,) users are finding that they constantly have to re-login again. Of course this gets annoying, and makes accessing those sites nearly [...]

Flash on Macintosh, and to a much greater extent Safari use to be ignored in the online game world. All too frequently us happy Apple users would be depressed with message saying “You Must be Running Internet Explorer to access this site. Click Here to Download Internet Explorer.” Which was even more annoying once Microsoft [...]

I’m still a huge fan of Apple’s Safari Browser. I feel it’s faster (and much less of a memory hog) then Firefox. But, the 3.2 Updated introduced a strange bug. Whenever I use tabbed browsing, it started crashing a lot. Clearing Cache and deleting preferences have not fixed at all. Even Onyx didn’t seem to [...]