Firefox & Safari

[JeremyK]

Originally Posted by baseballboy828

Safari should be trying to download .rar files, not displaying them as plain text. You could try using RCDefaultApps app to make sure your file settings are correct. You should also download The Unarchiver. It's designed as a replacement for the built in decompression utility, and can open .rar files and many more than the built in utility. You can use in completely in place of BOMArchiveHelper, the OS X app, or you can use The Unarchiver just for the types of archives BOMArchiveHelper is not capable of opening.

Wow that Unarchiver you suggested is great! I no longer have the gibberish that Safari was producing and I can extract stuff alot more quickly with fewer crashes!

Thanks BBB.

PS: When Safari (4 Beta) downloads, it automatically extracts the .zip file. So I never need to. However, when Safari might say that the file is "Missing or corrupt", Unarchiver extracts it no-problem at all!

I am using Unarchiver for everything but whatever BOMArchiveHelper can do automatically.

[philbowell]

I would turn off that setting if I were you. I don't think it shouldn't be on by default and several months/year ago there was an exploit which took advantage of this. Just more secure to have it turned off.

[JeremyK]

How do you turn it off?

[philbowell]

Under Safari Preferences on the General tab deselect the "Open Safe files after downloading" check box.

[pluto198]

Safari 99% of the time. Firefox when something doesn't seem to be working in Safari.

Originally Posted by JeremyK

Every single time I go to download a .rar file (Yes, I know mac cant read .rar files but I downloaded a program that can) it comes up with complete and utter nonsense thats harder to understand than binary code! Let me give you a little taste:

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FYI: you can force Safari to download instead of trying to display a file by holding the Option key as you click on a link (or as you press return in the address bar), or you can drag the link right into the Downloads window.

[pscapill]

Of interest: Lifehacker - Lifehacker Speed Tests: Safari 4, Chrome 2, and More - Browsers (via Lifehacker).

[divigation]

Windows tests...

[bendrucker]

Originally Posted by pscapill

Of interest: Lifehacker - Lifehacker Speed Tests: Safari 4, Chrome 2, and More - Browsers (via Lifehacker).

Why is Lifehacker including beta browsers in that test? IMO they should be testing the current stable release in addition to the latest beta.