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Submission details

42 +48/-6 votes

Double-click in Safari's download list

Submitted by dmitriid on August 26, 2008 to Annoyance, Usability

In order to ope a downloaded file, you have to right-click it in the Safari's download list and select Open n the context menu

Make double-click a default shortcut for "Open"

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Discussion (4 comments)

Grey_Podder wrote on August 26, 2008, 7:51pm

+1
Double-clicking the icon seems to work, but it would be better if double-clicking the entire entry would open it, too.

Frylock wrote on August 28, 2008, 3:33pm

Yes, double-click on the icon works. We should rephrase this submission as "Double-click should work on the whole line".

dehetepappie wrote on January 2, 2009, 5:57pm

While this would definitely make Safari more practical, but also make .dmg trojans or metadata exploits (pdf, jpg, etc) just that bit easier to install by accident. Going into Downloads and manually selecting the file might just add that little bit of extra effort that makes some people think twice about loading it. With millions of Macs out there even a percentually small increase in trojan infections would be quite damaging.

mikeschinkel wrote on December 25, 2009, 8:36am

@dehetepappie Then give power users an option. The Mac constantly asserts that it knows better than me when in fact it's usually wrong. Let me control the Mac the way I want to without all the attitude from the O/S.

Comment edited on December 25, 2009, 9:37am

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