Previewing PDFs in Safari WITHOUT downloading

Before downloading Adobe Creative Suite yesterday I was abe to preview in Safari (not Preview) without downloading them first. Then after downloading CS I got an error telling me there was a missing plugin. I researched the problem here and removed the offending Adobe plugin from my Library, but now when I click on a PDF instead of being able to preview it in Safari first and then decide if I need to download it, it just automatically downloads and opens on Preview. I'm in school and there are hundreds of PDFs we need to read. I don't want to have to download every one of them onto my local machine to read them...

Hi George
depending on if they're regular direct links - Option clicking them all is the quickest w/o adding any software.
http://www.sitesucker.us/mac.html may be useful - you'd need to remove the non-pdf files afterwards, but that's very quick if Finder is displaying them by file type.
I've seen a more customisable application, that you could likely say 'just pdf's from this page' to - if I recall it I'll post again.

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