Thank you for downloading Safari 4

Question

Well that clears things up. Clearing out all downloaders in Firefox let me copy Skype and other dmgs. But trying to download Safari leads to a page that says “thank you for downloading Safari 4,” but of course nothing was delivered. How do we tell?
Do we search spotlight for a dmg?
Will it load itself and appear in the dock?
Should we look in applications?

Answer 1

Very, very funny. But, no, you don't have to mount it like a horse. Besides I think it would prove difficult straddling a disc image.
The term is used to mean that the disc image is mounted on your Desktop like an attached external disk drive. A drive icon will appear, and when you double-click on the icon a Finder window will open to display the contents just as it would for any other disk drive appearing on your Desktop. At that point you can deal with the item as you would if it were an a CD or DVD. If there's an installer then the software can be installed by double-clicking on the installer icon. If no installer is needed then simply drag the application to a convenient place on your hard drive, usually the Applications folder.
The convenient way is to let your downloads go to the default folder - /Home/Downloads/. From there you can install the software. If you want to keep the download file you can or you can delete it. This approach obviates the need to search for the disc images or other downloads because they are always in the same folder.
Hope this helps.