This depends on the developers at the web-site you go to. Safari is
secure and works well with most of the major banking services (and has
been certified by them as being secure), but some developers haven't
kept up with this knowledge and really prefer to work only with IE
(some say the same about Mozilla and Camino -- both of these are secure
as well). I have used Safari on many secure sites with few or no
problems -- the few problems that I have encountered have always been
traced back to poor/lazy web-site development.
The most current version from Apple is V74 (BTW the latest OS-X is
10.2.6, you mentioned 10.2.5 in your message).
One thing you might be interested in doing is to download Safari
Enhancer from versiontracker.com. This allows you to turn on Safari's
Debug Menu (uh yes if you know about programming you can do it with the
enhancer, but it makes this easier and the Enhancer is free). The debug
menu allows you to tell web-sites that you are suing IE or Netscape
Navigator or one of several other browsers. There are additional things
in that menu as well relating to security.
Jerry
On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 07:24 PM, profile wrote:
> Jerry,
>
> You are so good to help us and it certainly is appreciated, and I want
> to
> thank Harry & Bill for the World Clock suggestions, they are great.
>
> I have used Safari, but when I tried to order a product I was told it
> was
> not secure and had to load I.E. And go through all the hoops again to
> get to
> the purchase screen. I had the most current version so possibly I
> didn't
> have something set correctly?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> John R.
>
>
>
> On 6/11/03 7:11 PM, "Jerry Yeager" <jerry at browseryshop.com> wrote:
>
>> Best Answer: Quite using IE except for some sort of really strange and
>> bizarre emergency.
>>
>> Try Safari (from Apple) or Camino (from the Mozilla folks). Both of
>> these are free and will load pages so fast that you will (most likely)
>> never want to go back to IE again.
>>
>> http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
>>
>> or
>>
>> http://www.mozilla.org/ (about halfway down the page there will be
>> a
>> link to click on and download it).
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>> Note: if after getting one of these going and you still have troubles,
>> then it could be a problem with the ISP, the phone line, or some sort
>> of proxy firewall setting that should not be turned on, but is.
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 06:55 PM, profile wrote:
>>
>>> MAC Friends,
>>>
>>> My daughter has the new iMAC, 15inch monitor, running 10.2.5. Her
>>> dialup
>>> connection has gotten unusable. She logs onto a site and gets the
>>> wait
>>> game, going sometime 20 min. and she screen never loads.
>>>
>>> I have brought her up to date on the Version of the O.S., and I have
>>> loaded
>>> the latest version of Internet Explorer. I have run the permissions
>>> utility
>>> from a C.D. And nothing seems to help.
>>>
>>> Is there a file I can trash that will fix this, or what suggestions
>>> do
>>> you
>>> have. I have several machines running I.E. And even on the dialup I
>>> don't
>>> have these problem, and never have.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help, she is very exasperated and I guess dad needs
>>> to
>>> get
>>> this fixed.
>>>
>>> John Robinson
>>> profile at aye.net
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
>
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>
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