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| Thread ID: 139690 | 2015-06-12 00:22:00 | Browser for iPad - recommendations please? | John H (8) | Press F1 |
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| 1402538 | 2015-06-12 00:22:00 | My wife has an iPad and uses Safari as her browser. Her bank site is now telling her that her version of Safari is out of date, insecure, and needs updating so SWMBO has become insecure (I forbear to comment on whether she needs updating as well). Thus far I have found out that: a) Safari comes with iOS and cannot be updated unless iOS is updated b) she has the latest version of iOS for her model iPad (iPad 2). c) ergo, she cannot update Safari any further. It is very odd that Apple have left the iPad Safari way behind the current versions available for a Mac PC, but there you are. I have suggested that she install a third party browser that is regularly updated. My natural inclination would be to go for Firefox, but I have found on my Nexus 9 that Opera and Dolphin are both better than FF (and Dolphin supports Flash). Can any of you who use an iPad recommend a good third party browser? Thanks. |
John H (8) | ||
| 1402539 | 2015-06-12 01:41:00 | Apple requires all web browsers on the iPad to use the WebKit platform So really there isn't any such thing as an alternative browser on the iPad I would go and talk to your bank and tell them they have stuffed up. |
nmercer (3899) | ||
| 1402540 | 2015-06-12 01:53:00 | Are you sure your bank doesn't have an app you can install? Check that the iPad is on iOS 8.3 in Settings>General>About>Version |
Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1402541 | 2015-06-12 03:47:00 | Thanks both. I doubt that telling the bank that they have stuffed up will get me very far, but thanks for the suggestion. The OS is v8.3 I checked for an app - I know there is one for Android, but they (Kiwibank) haven't produced one for the iPad unfortunately. I did a check for alternative browsers for iPad, and there are a few, including Chrome, Dolphin, and Opera. I took a punt and installed Opera because it is my favourite on Android, and voila - it connects fine with the bank with no security warnings. However, SWMBO is now trying to make a payment using Opera, and she says it is just going around in circles so we may not be out of the woods yet. |
John H (8) | ||
| 1402542 | 2015-06-12 03:57:00 | Well, SWMBO is right about the problem with Opera - it won't process a payment, it just keeps flicking back to the blank payment form, so that is useless. I thought I would try to replicate the security warning from Kiwibank using Safari on her iPad, and there is nothing there now, so maybe someone has told Kiwibank the iPad version of Safari is correct and up to date. Whatever, I am sorry to have wasted your time... Maybe next time I will try to replicate the problem first, rather than assuming there is a continuing issue... |
John H (8) | ||
| 1402543 | 2015-06-12 04:03:00 | Sounds similar to this (discussions.apple.com), but with most of the users, Safari stopped working So it looks like it maybe an Apple screwup |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1402544 | 2015-06-12 05:16:00 | Thanks speedy. Safari works (and has always worked) on all the other websites she uses. It was only Kiwibank where there was a problem - the bank message was that Safari was out of date and insecure. And that warning has now gone, so you may be right about it being an Apple screwup. I wish she would get a Nexus 9 - at least I know how to manage that, and all browsers I have tried in Android get updated regularly. As far as I know, Safari is the only browser around that has to wait for an OS update to get security fixes. Even MSoft updates IE as holes become apparent. It seems weird, but Apple resembles everything we used to complain about with MSoft in previous times when I was a Mac user. Now Apple seems to me to be worse than MSoft ever was, at least in terms of authoritarian and user-unfriendly behaviour. |
John H (8) | ||
| 1402545 | 2015-06-13 00:38:00 | still sounds to me like Kiwibank were detecting Safari versions on iOS incorrectly, and have no rolled that back. I'm sure if you had called them and alerted to them to it, it would've been fixed even faster. and yes they do have an iOS app itunes.apple.com |
nmercer (3899) | ||
| 1402546 | 2015-06-13 01:56:00 | You may be correct - that it is a Kiwibank stuff up rather than an Apple one. I like your touching faith in the ability of a single individual to a) find the right person in a large organisation to talk to, and b) persuade them that they have stuffed up! ;-) However, regarding the app, this is very odd. If I search for Kiwibank (using the iPad App Store) under 'iPad Only', there is nothing listed. Following your post, I searched again under 'iPad Only' with the same result. However when I searched under 'iPhone Only', your app came up, and I seem to have successfully installed it - on an iPad. Go figure. Why does it not show up as an iPad app? Is this the modern way to find apps, by searching under a device you are not using? |
John H (8) | ||
| 1402547 | 2015-06-13 02:26:00 | Because it's an iPhone app rather than an iPad app. In most cases iPhone apps work on the iPad. +1 on calling for help, even if they couldn't have fixed it, by the time they get 3-4 calls to let them know there is an issue I'm sure they could find a way to pass it on to the devs. |
Alex B (15479) | ||
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