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10 Replies Last post: Sep 13, 2003 2:11 PM by Randy_B_Singer

Nobody

58,347 posts since
Oct 18, 2007

Sep 12, 2003 10:02 AM

Does IE still ship with G5's?

Does anyone know if Internet Explorer is still shipping with the G5s? I use Safari about 98% of the time, but there is that 2% that I need IE. I had heard that MS is no longer going to make IE for Mac because of Safari, any truth to that?

CrecenS

1,562 posts since
Jan 30, 2002

1. Sep 12, 2003 10:14 AM

in response to: Nobody

Re: Does IE still ship with G5's?

Since IE as a stand alone browser is officially dead for both Macs and Windows according to MS, I doubt it. What do you need IE for?

shaung5

34 posts since
Sep 10, 2003

2. Sep 12, 2003 10:31 AM

in response to: CrecenS

Re: Does IE still ship with G5's?

Yes its on here, new g5 1.6 although i havnt really used it.

hope that helps

shaun

newuser2003

128 posts since
Aug 8, 2003

3. Sep 12, 2003 4:17 PM

in response to: Nobody

Re: Does IE still ship with G5's?

Exactly, Safari works fine 98%. But still some times it get bad; especially when it gets to online banking or paying bills online. I have notice that safari cant shows the transactions in Citi bank website. Also the whole navigation bar doesnt appears in cingular website (cant log out, check you accountest.). And stuff like that.

Another thing is I cant download any attachment from hotmail, once you click the download button youll get logged out of your email rather than downloading the attachment. Thats really weird.

Has anyone got these problems?
Anyone have a solution for it.

Typhoon14

2,316 posts since
Feb 2, 2001

4. Sep 12, 2003 4:25 PM

in response to: Nobody

Re: Does IE still ship with G5's?

Microsoft has officially stopped development of IE for the Mac, mostly due to Safari's emergence.

CrecenS

1,562 posts since
Jan 30, 2002

5. Sep 12, 2003 4:26 PM

in response to: newuser2003

Re: Does IE still ship with G5's?

Well, I only share Cingular for websites, but it seems that the site works 98% - some links just don't work - like the java rollovers that don't resolve right. I still can get all my billing info though, although I am not sure where - I am in the process of leaving Cingular, so I am not usingthe site any more.

Other than that, I just ahad a problem resolving a page on an IBM site, and I never have had any success with proxies and Safari. I have Mozilla for that though. Its slow, but it works.

Nobody

58,347 posts since
Oct 18, 2007

6. Sep 12, 2003 4:46 PM

in response to: CrecenS

Re: Does IE still ship with G5's?

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What do you need IE for?

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Because sometimes Safari just does not work with some web sites, weather it is JAVA or making some kind of transaction, whenever I go to IE the web site comes up or the transaction goes through. I do not like to use IE, Safari is way better, but it seems like a necessary evil. The IE icon that is in my dock has the stylized E with the word SUCKS across it (found it at Xicons.com I think), so Im not a fan.

SueG

2,396 posts since
May 19, 2002

7. Sep 12, 2003 8:04 PM

in response to: Nobody

Re: Does IE still ship with G5's?

Does the recent Java update help at all?

iloveitaly

1,182 posts since
Mar 17, 2003

8. Sep 13, 2003 4:58 AM

in response to: SueG

Re: Does IE still ship with G5's?

Hi,
This should fix your problem. look at the comments, one of the people had the same problem as you and this fixed it for them.

wally626

100 posts since
Jan 5, 2002

9. Sep 13, 2003 5:15 AM

in response to: iloveitaly

Re: Does IE still ship with G5's?

Changing the browser settings to mimic windows browsers keeps the sites from not leting you in but often the Mac browsers still don't work right. For my bank the Camino browser seems to work best, I can even get images of my checks something none of the other Mac browsers will do even if they can log on and get to the transaction data.

Randy_B_Singer

634 posts since
Dec 20, 2002

10. Sep 13, 2003 2:11 PM

in response to: wally626

Re: Does IE still ship with G5's?

Changing the browser settings to mimic windows browsers keeps the sites from not leting you in<<

As an interesting aside; some folks are now pointing to Web site statistics to make the argument that Mac market share is decreasing and that the return to cater to Mac-users is almost insignificant.

I believe that because so many folks have set their browsers to report to Web sites that they are IE/Win (to be let in) that Web site statistics are now unreliable.

Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html

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