If files are currently being downloaded, you can use the button to pause and resume them. If there are no downloads, the button won’t appear. To choose to download a linked file (and some webpage items can’t be downloaded, in Safari click the Show Downloads button near the top-right corner of the web browser window.

In Safari, you can click on anything identified as a download link, or Control-click an image or other object on the page. Safe files include movies, pictures, sounds, PDF and text documents, and archives. You can also choose whether to automatically open “safe” files after they’ve downloaded. You’ll see a dialog box that allows you to select the file download location, as well as determine how often you want downloaded items automatically removed from your Mac: after one day, when you Mac shuts down, after a successful download, or manually. To change where the downloads go, go to Safari’s Preferences and select General. Although Safari browser is the first choice of Mac OS X. You’ll see it listed along with folders for Desktop, Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Public. It is lightweight, fast and user friendly browser and mostly people prefer to use it on windows devices. You can find the Downloads folder by going to the Users folder on your Mac’s hard drive and clicking User. By default they’re located in your Downloads folder.

In the macOS Safari web browser, you can choose where downloaded files are deposited.