I've mostly used Mac Safari over the last 5-10 years, previously having used Firefox or Internet Explorer. In the past few years, it seems to have become more incompatible. For various work applications, if you call customer support they will flat out tell you not to use Mac Safari. There's one insurance product that I use that only works with Google Chrome. The other day, when I was watching movie on Netflix it came in at same insanely low resolution. On reddit this was some known glitch and you can go through a 10 step process to fix it, or you can do what I did to watch it on Firefox and it worked just fine!
So for many years, I've used Quickbooks to do the accounting for my small business. These transactions sync from the bank. About a year ago, there started to be an issue where the transactions would be dropped. So then I started syncing the transactions manually (i.e. download transactions from bank every 2 weeks in various Quickbooks/Quicken file and upload it to the bank). Then yesterday, this all fell apart too. Transactions started to be missed. Luckily, I reconcile every time (my first year doing this I didn't even know what reconciling was). If you make mistakes and your accountant catches it at tax time that can set you back thousands of dollars... Anyway, I switch to Firefox and upload the transactions and guess what? No missed transactions.
I'm not an expert on computer science, but should the choice of browser even matter? Is this some unhappy coincidence or are the transactions for real being dropped when I try to do this work on Mac Safari?
I didn't post in the Mac section because I want to get the opinions of a broader demographic and not just defensive Mac fanboys.
So for many years, I've used Quickbooks to do the accounting for my small business. These transactions sync from the bank. About a year ago, there started to be an issue where the transactions would be dropped. So then I started syncing the transactions manually (i.e. download transactions from bank every 2 weeks in various Quickbooks/Quicken file and upload it to the bank). Then yesterday, this all fell apart too. Transactions started to be missed. Luckily, I reconcile every time (my first year doing this I didn't even know what reconciling was). If you make mistakes and your accountant catches it at tax time that can set you back thousands of dollars... Anyway, I switch to Firefox and upload the transactions and guess what? No missed transactions.
I'm not an expert on computer science, but should the choice of browser even matter? Is this some unhappy coincidence or are the transactions for real being dropped when I try to do this work on Mac Safari?
I didn't post in the Mac section because I want to get the opinions of a broader demographic and not just defensive Mac fanboys.
You shouldn't fear the Ach. We're fully capable of criticizing Apple when criticism is warranted. I don't know that this is one of those times, however.