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I have a Mac at work and if I download a .dmg or a .dmg.zip file using safari it will save it to the downloads folder and then automatically unzip and mount it and after mounting the dmg will open up a window. I find this very convenient.
Now at home I have a macbook pro also running SL 10.6.8 and here if I download a .dmg or .dmg.zip safari simply saves it to downloads. It does not automatically mount it. If the file is a .dmg.zip safari unzips it but leaves it at that.
Also if I doubleclick the downloaded .dmg it mounts but does not open. I have to then double click the mounted drive to open it. Can anyone help me.
I have the setting Open safe files after downloading ticked in safari. No other mounting utilities are installed, the osx setup is pretty much at its defaults on both machines.
Thanks in advance

Update: I finally bit the bullet and reinstalled SL. The version on the install disk was 10.6.7 and both of the above problems disappeared.
Then I applied the combo update to 10.6.8 and safari stopped automounting downloaded disk images.
However now if I click the dmg, it mounts and opens the dmg front page automatically. So that side of the problem has disappeared.
Clearly all this is a setting somewhere because at work my Mac is running 10.6.8 and it all works correctly.

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