Safari 26.1 and AOL/Yahoo Webmail programs issue

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Safari 26.1 and AOL/Yahoo Webmail programs issue

I have a new MacBook Pro with Tahoe 26.1 installed. When trying to sign in to Webmail AOL Mail & Yahoo Mail I get an error message that says "Something Went Wrong" and will not let me go any further. This only happens in Safari. I am able to use the Apple mail program and Firefox without any issues. I have cleared the history and don't have any extensions loaded. I tried it in a standard Safari window as well as a private window and got the same results.

I have rebooted the computer as well. I have a keychain password on all of my email accounts. I tried adding a passcode and got the same results. I can access these accounts on my iPhone with iOS 18.7.2 as well as my Windows computer. It seems to be a Safari incompatibilty issue with AOL and Yahoo Webmail. I never had these issues with my 2017 MacBook Pro so again it seems to be a Safari 26.1 issue.

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 26.1

Posted on Nov 23, 2025 6:13 AM

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Nov 23, 2025 6:43 AM in response to MachEng

MachEng wrote:

I have a new MacBook Pro with Tahoe 26.1 installed. When trying to sign in to Webmail AOL Mail & Yahoo Mail I get an error message that says "Something Went Wrong" and will not let me go any further. This only happens in Safari.

I am able to use the Apple mail program and Firefox without any issues. I have cleared the history and don't have any extensions loaded. I tried it in a standard Safari window as well as a private window and got the same results.

It seems to be a Safari incompatibilty issue with AOL and Yahoo Webmail. I never had these issues with my 2017 MacBook Pro so again it seems to be a Safari 26.1 issue.

I would use what works.

To be proactive you can file a bug report / submit your feedback direct to the Product Team here:

Feedback - Safari - Apple

Always good to have more than one browser, esp browsers that use different rendering engines exactly for this reason.

Safari—Webkit as its core rendering engine

FireFox—Gecko rendering engine

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