Online Banking with Mac Intel
I have online bank accounts with DBS Bank, United Overseas Bank(UOB), and Citibank. So when I brought my Mac Mini home to replace my PC, I needed to get it working immediately. But there were some challenges:
Naturally, I tried with Safari first since it came with the Mac. No luck across the board. Apparently there were some security issues with the Java Runtime Environment that came with the Mac Intel. The login panels for Username and Passwords of all the above banks are some kind of Java Applets. These applets did not load up in Safari so either I could not even get the panel to show (and I see the coffee cup) or it shows but I can't input the password (UOB).
I decided to download Internet Explorer figuring that this may work. However, I get the note on Microsoft's Mac site that "INTERNET EXPLORER FOR MAC NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD" and is no longer supported after 2005. So I googled in and found a version (IE 5.2.3 for Mac OSX) downloadable from http://www.pure-mac.com/webb.html. This solved the problem for DBS and Citibank, but not UOB. Don't ask me why. I do not know.
Then last week (20-25 March 2006) Apple did an automatic software update on a number of things on my Mac Intel. See here for details. One of the patches was for Safari. After that was installed, Safari worked fine on all three banking websites.
There is light at the end of the tunnel!!!!!!! I await for more updates for Mac Intels....
Naturally, I tried with Safari first since it came with the Mac. No luck across the board. Apparently there were some security issues with the Java Runtime Environment that came with the Mac Intel. The login panels for Username and Passwords of all the above banks are some kind of Java Applets. These applets did not load up in Safari so either I could not even get the panel to show (and I see the coffee cup) or it shows but I can't input the password (UOB).
I decided to download Internet Explorer figuring that this may work. However, I get the note on Microsoft's Mac site that "INTERNET EXPLORER FOR MAC NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD" and is no longer supported after 2005. So I googled in and found a version (IE 5.2.3 for Mac OSX) downloadable from http://www.pure-mac.com/webb.html. This solved the problem for DBS and Citibank, but not UOB. Don't ask me why. I do not know.
Then last week (20-25 March 2006) Apple did an automatic software update on a number of things on my Mac Intel. See here for details. One of the patches was for Safari. After that was installed, Safari worked fine on all three banking websites.
There is light at the end of the tunnel!!!!!!! I await for more updates for Mac Intels....
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