A recent video project required me to download MP4 files from our streaming partner's site. When I would click a link, however, the video would play in Safari, and there wasn't a way to right-click on the link and download it, as you can do with other kinds of files. So how do I download the MP4?
Open the Downloads window in Safari and paste the URL into it. The download will start immediately.
[crarko adds: This is generally worth trying for hard to download files.]
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