How to fix Safari downloaded dialog is hiding behind Safari window?

kallisti wrote:

This is a new behaviour that appears to have coincided with some Sequoia updates.

• Whenever I have to download anything, typically the download button will trigger a new safari window to open, and then the dialogue box asking me to allow downloads will get buried beneath windows, often multiple windows deep. The dialogue box isn't an entity that shows up in the "Window" menu so this "freeze" in workflow has been pretty confusing for a while now.

• Is there an xml parameter I can bump in a config file somewhere? I have absolutely no desire to completely reset safari right now.

• My current plugin suite is:

wipr

control panel for twitter

sessionrestore

if Safari is set as your default browser— change the location and compare your results.

compare Safari in Full Screen mode, verse a a small window open on your Desktop— I always have Safari as default, in Full Screen a swipe away. My main working browser is Firefox windowed on the Desktop

I would not select auto-open "Safe files"

you can test your situation: https://testfile.org/all-pdf-sample-test-file-download-direct/

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kallisti wrote:

typically the download button will trigger a new safari window to open

I will say I see this periodically , not limited to Sequoia...typically associated with a mail link to open in Safari— I quit both the Mail.app and the Safari.app and relaunch both seems to sort the glitch.

I will say however I only have one Safari window open

Quit the Safari.app and relaunch it and compare your results.