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carlsson

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Jul 18, 2001
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As the title; After update to Big Sur, Safari doesn't auto-open downloaded PDF's.

I have tried on another user on my Mac, but it behaves the same way.
I have tried deleting the com.apple.Safari.plist file, still no success.

This used to work so smoothly, but now it's at hickup in my workflow! :(

Any ideas?
 

carlsson

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Jul 18, 2001
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I just tried on a fresh installation and there it works as it should.
This means there's something effed up on my system. If anyone knows where I should look I would be grateful! :)
 

mikzn

macrumors 68040
Sep 2, 2013
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North Vancouver
Works fine for me - Big Sur 11.2 / Safari 14.0.3

Maybe try to toggle - enable / disable in the Safari Preferences < General ?

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foonon

macrumors member
Aug 4, 2007
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I'm having this issue as well. I *can* dl the pdf and read it outside of Safari, but I cannot read it in Safari itself.

~f
 

foonon

macrumors member
Aug 4, 2007
81
19
Running any Safari Extensions that might not be Big Sur ready?

The "Extensions" tab in Safari Preferences says that I have "No Extensions", so unless there are any stealth extensions in here, I'll say "No".

~f
 
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