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Widget (in)security
Authored by: sjonke on May 18, '05 10:54:17AM

10.4.1 does not really fix the widget issue. To my mind the real issue with that is that widgets get downloaded into a different place from any other download and the user is not notified of this. Widgets go directly into ~/Library/Widgets/ 10.4.1 does not inform the user that this is going to happen, it just says the exact same thing as it does for other downloads which go into your Downloads folder: that it is an application. Widgets should download to your Downloads folder and double-clicking one should offer to install it, as opposed to automatically copying it to ~/Library/Widgets/ without asking, which is what it currently does. Double-clicking a file should not result in the file being copied to another location without intervention.

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Widget (in)security
Authored by: freebee on May 19, '05 10:48:15AM

This does not happen on my system...I do not have a widgets folder on the user level...and when i download then...they go to my desktop (as do all of my downloads). The only thing I changed in Safari was the location of my downloads... maybe changing your download destination to the desktop will solve your problem..or create a "downloads" folder on your desktop.



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