DMG compatibilty with browsers

[James Richards]

This automount behaviour can be toggled in Safari Preferences > General 
which offers a checkbox option to 'Open "safe" files automatically' and 
lists the kind of files it applies to. I think the default setting is 
to open such files but obviously users might choose to reverse that, in 
other words you can't count on the particular behaviour.

IE (5.2.3) by contrast only automatically (depending on preferences 
set) handles MacBinary and BinHex files. I haven't tried this (I don't 
use IE) but I guess if you assigned DiskUtility as a helper application 
to DMG files then they might automount.

Regards

James
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James J Richards

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On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:01:18 EST, RGould8 via 
use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

> Can anyone tell me, from a Mac perspective, what various browsers to by
> default when one clicks on a hyperlink on a web-page that is a .DMG
> file?
>
> I'm finding that on my Mac, Safari downloads the .DMG and automatically
> mounts it.   IE just downloads it and does not auto-mount.   Curious
> if that's the way it's working on your Macs as well.   Also curious 
> what FireFox
> does, and Opera, etc.