Disable opening of links
Hey Folks,
So I was wondering, if there was a way to prevent applications from opening safari with a link.
My problem is, that I have a lot of tabs open and when I start Safari it opens these tabs automatically.
But new, when Safari is closed and an app opens a link (Adobe flash player for instance) it opens just this link, and all tabs are gone.
Its pretty time-consuming to open all these tabs again.
Safari version: 6.1.6 (7537.78.2)
System version: 10.7.5
Thanks in advance,
Manuel
usually you look for referrer headers and allow download only if the referrer is something approved.
But it's possible that referrer is legitimately not there (although probably a bad browser).
But as mentioned by others, this really doesn't prevent anyone from getting the files regardless if they really want to. So ultimately, you are better off not bothering with this. If you think you have this super-great, kick-ass JS and CSS stuff, I bet you would be extremely surprised to find out how many people don't really care.
Edited by: bsampieri on Jun 13, 2008 9:27 AM
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--- more info ---
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