Try it again, but this time hold the Option key when you click the link. Nice to look at, but it’s not “yours.” So it’s hard (or impossible) to type anything in the form (or to save it, which you almost certainly want to do). Here’s what it looks like in your browser: 1040 form loaded in Safari You see the form, but you don’t have the form. Without the Option key, when you click the Form 1040 link it opens in your browser. You find the form you want, and now you want to get a copy and save it to your hard disk. Suppose you’re looking for tax forms on the IRS website. Try it fifty times and fifty times it’s the same– you don’t actually download the PDF, you just see it in the browser.īut, if you hold the Option key when you click the link, you will download a copy to your Mac for later use. Ever click a link in Safari (or Chrome), hoping to download a PDF, and instead of downloading, the thing opens up in the browser (or worse, in Acrobat)? That’s a drag.
