Mac mini download problem!

[Bodaciousman9]

Dear whomever this concerns, My Mac Mini will not download anything on Safari and when I try to it takes me to a black and gray screen and does not download. Nothing freezes, it just takes me to the screen and doesnt do anything. It doesnt matter what i even download. I cant even download chrome or firefox to see if i can download anything on them, because safari wont let me download anything now. Yet i can perfectly download anything from the mac store.

Please help and respond soon, i have had this mac mini for maybe 2 months and i still cant download anything off of safari.

 

[donlab]

change your settings in "privacy" in sys preffs to allow install of other apps.

 

[Bodaciousman9]

What would i change, all there is to change is " to enable location services, or to send diagnostic & usage data to apple" in system preferences>security & privacy> privacy

 

[donlab]

sorry, im not in front of my mac, doing this by memory. its in the security tab in sys preffs and you should see an option to allow install apps from anywhere.

 

[palmharbor]

switch

Gees just switch to Firefox...its faster and not as fussy as
Safari. I rarely to Safari

 

[Bodaciousman9]

Well now i tried to download fire fox again, and this time it took me tomthe black/grey screen and this time it said plug in failure. Will this help at all?

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Took me TO THE...

 

[xlii]

system preferences --> General --> Allow applications downloaded from: (check anywhere)

 

[Bodaciousman9]

Xlii

Dude, when i go into sys pref>general>,
There is nothing that asks me that

 

[costabunny]

could be a permissions thing. Open Disk Utility and select your Mac OS Disk and check permissions. if needed then do a fix permissions.

also if you need to get another browser without using safari; open a terminal window and use the following to grab the Chrome installer for mac;

curl -O https://dl.google.com/chrome/mac/stable/GGRO/googlechrome.dmg

edit: This will drop the file in your default folder /Volumes/<YOURMACOSDISK>/Users/<YOURUSERNAME>/



hope this helps

(are we assuming you are using Mountain Lion here?)

 

[Nate392]

System Preferences --> Security & Privacy --> General

It's toward the bottom of the screen. The "General" menu should be the first to show up in the Security & Privacy panel.

That should fix it, I think.