DMG compatibilty with browsers

[Dave Cragg]

On 2 Dec 2004, at 20:01, RGould8 at aol.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.

Safari has a Preferences setting -- Open "safe" files after 
downloading. This covers disk images. It is unchecked on my machine, 
but I don't know if it was that way by default.

Dave