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Browsing problems

My Macbook Air is running osx 10.10.5 and im having browsing issues with Chrome and Safari where repeatedly a website opens and all the images or photos on the page are question marks and wont open and with other websites the page cannot be opened and I get a message saying 'your connection is not private' and or the certificate is out of date and I cant open that page.

What do I need to do?

Posted on Oct 16, 2021 1:28 AM

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Oct 16, 2021 3:20 AM in response to Cowgirlinthesand

The browser certificates for Safari and the other, are outdated.

While they may get a fix; for interim you can get & use Firefox.


• How to download and install Firefox on Mac | Firefox Help

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-download-and-install-firefox-mac


Also there is the Brave browser, has new features; security, etc.


..And there's newer 'old versions' of macOS downloadable upgrades..

["Safari uses these links to find the old installers in the App Store."]


Good luck & happy computing!🌞🌗


Oct 16, 2021 9:38 PM in response to Cowgirlinthesand

..cowgirlinthesand:

There are other factors involved; Firefox uses different certificates.

Mozilla has custom versions for most operating systems out there.

(Some aspects of security & codes are not shared among browsers.)


Same with Brave; in several ways, they're ahead of the curve.


Versions of 'Mozilla Firefox' across range of supported products

offer longer-spans of support; and is driven by non-profit status.


Most of their rationale is published on product's 'splash screen'

and can be read on main pages; prior to specific version builds.


There was a lot going on, with browsers & security certificates, after 22/27/30 Sept '21.

Safari/Mac and its 'associated webkit' had some issues; other browsers had a few too.


You must update your Mac OS version to a newer one to get a newer version of Safari.

Certain problems affected many Apple Safari-based browser webkit security/certificates.


Topic in general comes up in search engine needs fine tuned to show certain details:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=how+to+update+browser+certificate+security+authority+macOS&ia=web


Good luck & happy trails!🌻🌤🌿🐢

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