Preview proxy icon missing when pdf opens from Safari

Hi, this was an older question which was not answered. The problem annoys me too (had to install skim for this single reason, even though I prefer preview for offline work). Here it is:
If I'm viewing a pdf inside safari and I right click on it and select "Open with Preview" Preview does indeed open the pdf but there is no proxy icon next to the pdf's title in the title bar. Preview in Tiger definitely did have one, the path to pdfs opened like this was something like ~/username/library/wekitpdfs/filename.pdf
Anyone know if there's a way to get my beloved proxy icon back, dragging the icon to the desired destination is faster than going through the save dialog.
Is this a Preview or Safari bug? Thank you for any insight on this

papanic wrote:
I very much doubt that this is the way things are meant to work. If I open the pdf in Safari and rightclick>open it with skim, Skim displays the proxy icon, as Preview used to.
Btw, the file's path still points to a tmp folder (webkitpdfs)
So this is either a bug in Safari or Preview (because it impairs functionality), or, hopefully, there's some hidden preference somewhere which you can change and reactivate the proxy icon.
Have you verified this as a Safari bug by checking that it works with FireFox?

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