Safari doesn't download files

In stead it opens a new tab and tries to open the url of the file.
so far:
- I've deleted the com.apple.safari.plst
- Reset safari
- there are no plugins (speed download or igetter,...)
To no avail, this drives me crazy.
thanks in advance

If you go into safari preferences>general and see which folder it sends downlaods to, you could check there. It could have set to some silly loaction for some reason?

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