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How do you resume an interrupted download in Apple Safari?

Dave, you've said in a different article (see Download managers that allow resumption of interrupted downloads) that Apple's Safari browser has that as an option for its download manager. Just right-click on an interrupted download in the "Download Window". I'm a bit confused, because I have Safari on a Mac with OSX tiger. When I control-click there is NO option in the window to resume download. Please clarify as you said Safari can do this....

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Why are mailto links not clickable in Firefox?

I've never had this problem before: I upgraded Firefox on my Mac OS X system and now any time I'm on a page with a "mailto:" link, those links are not clickable. Any other sort of "href" works fine, but email links do nothing. I looked through the preferences, but nada. How can I fix things?...

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How do I save URL shortcuts on my Mac desktop?

Is there a way to put a shortcut to a URL on the OS X desktop. Used to be able to do this in XP, but can't figure out how to do it in OS X....

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