I've been having problems with Safari downloading applications to my desktop. When I hit a download link, the page refreshes, but Safari's downloads window does not appear, and nothng happens. I've asked around and nobody seems to know what to do. One person suggested that I trash the downloads.plist, and I've done so- several times. I'm working with an iMac G4, version 10.3. Any suggestions on how to solve this problem would be greatly appreciated.

mariposa_catcher, this probably isn't the kind of help you had in mind... but i use firefox as my primary browser and it works awesome! go to www.mozilla.org and check it out if you're interested. just make sure to change safari's preferences to make firefox your default browser alan

Alan, I would love to download foxfire and use it as my default, but I still have the problem of not being able to download anything. I've never really had any problems with Safari, and it's pretty reliable for me. I've just started really getting used to it and now this happens. Not being able to download from the internet makes it very frustrating to update other software. But thanks for your advice. When I figure out what's wrong with Safari's downloading problem I'll download foxfire. mariposa_catcher

good call, if you want me to, i can email you the disk image for firefox. alan

Alan, Thank you for the offer but I've found out that I can't download from any server. I've tried downloading from Camino and Explorer. I'm thinking that it might be something in the system. If anybody has had this problem and knows how to correct it, please tell me. I'm getting desperate. -mariposa_catcher