Safari as standard web browser

I have recently experienced access problems with safari for instance accessing sas.se.


Am I unlucky or is this a general problem with safari not being optimized for certain pages?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 15.6

Posted on Aug 16, 2025 11:15 AM

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Posted on Aug 16, 2025 1:29 PM

It's the other way around: Safari is not optimized for certain pages; web pages are designed to conform to published standards. Safari is W3C standards-based.


If web pages are not loading properly read If Safari doesn't open a page or work as expected on Mac - Apple Support.


Needless to say, if you are using any non-Apple "anti-virus", "cleaning", or "Internet security" products including "banking security", anything at all in that broad category of utterly useless garbage, don't. A lot of things won't work if you do.

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Aug 16, 2025 1:29 PM in response to kstrid

It's the other way around: Safari is not optimized for certain pages; web pages are designed to conform to published standards. Safari is W3C standards-based.


If web pages are not loading properly read If Safari doesn't open a page or work as expected on Mac - Apple Support.


Needless to say, if you are using any non-Apple "anti-virus", "cleaning", or "Internet security" products including "banking security", anything at all in that broad category of utterly useless garbage, don't. A lot of things won't work if you do.

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