SweetMacTips — Do you know of any workarounds to suppress the Downloads box in Safari? It is honestly the only thing that bugs me about it. I’ve tried using Glims, but it’s too much of a hassle to play around with all of the settings. I don’t care about all the extra features. I just want the box to go away.

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Do you know of any workarounds to suppress the Downloads box in Safari? It is honestly the only thing that bugs me about it.

I've tried using Glims, but it's too much of a hassle to play around with all of the settings. I don't care about all the extra features. I just want the box to go away.

jtoz-deactivated20111207 asked

Glims isn’t designed for Safari 5 or Lion (yet?). I don’t know of a way to bring back the Downloads window as of yet. There may be a hidden setting that can be unleashed with a ‘defaults write’ command as beta versions of Lion included Safari that had both the Downloads window and the new iPad-like method.