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> Doubtful Firefox and Chrome work just fine. That doesn't mean anything. It just means that whatever is messed up affects Safari. It's not like the computer r

> Doubtful Firefox and Chrome work just fine. That doesn't mean anything. It just means that whatever is messed up affects Safari. It's not like the computer recognizes "oh those 3 apps are all web browsers, therefore if I'm going to screw one of them up, I have to screw them all up". Your claim would carry more weight if you were listing multiple browsers that all use the same system-provided WebKit.framework, but Firefox and Chrome are completely separate browsing engines. Regarding the HTTPS issue, I believe Firefox and Chrome maintain their own list of root certs, so one possible way the computer could be screwed up is having the system-managed root cert list be damaged (you didn't specify what actually happens when trying to connect to HTTPS sites so I don't know if this is actually a plausible cause in this particular case). > Brand new install of Mac OS on a new SSD. So Safari was clean no extensions, no custom configuration. Well I don't know what to tell you, except to point out that there's, what, hundreds of thousands of registered Apple developers now? who've all had to go through that form, and there's only a handful of people on that thread, so it's far more likely to be a local issue.

2trill2spill 9y ago
> That doesn't mean anything. It just means that whatever is messed up affects Safari. It's not like the computer recognizes "oh those 3 apps are all web browsers, therefore if I'm going to screw one of them up, I have to screw them all up". Your claim would carry more weight if you were listing multiple browsers that all use the same system-provided WebKit.framework, but Firefox and Chrome are completely separate browsing engines. That fact that everything besides Safari works certainly means something and the fact that they have different rendering engines is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether a site renders in a browser or not. > Well I don't know what to tell you, except to point out that there's, what, hundreds of thousands of registered Apple developers now? who've all had to go through that form, and there's only a handful of people on that thread, so it's far more likely to be a local issue. Well that's just one example of dozens of people having that problem. Also I have successfully filled out that form my self in the past, as I am a registered apple developer. But just because large amounts of people can use the form successfully does not mean that there isn't a bug affecting other user's like my friend.

2trill2spill 9y ago

> That doesn't mean anything. It just means that whatever is messed up affects Safari. It's not like the computer recognizes "oh those 3 apps are all web browsers, therefore if I'm going to screw one of them up, I have to screw them all up". Your claim would carry more weight if you were listing multiple browsers that all use the same system-provided WebKit.framework, but Firefox and Chrome are completely separate browsing engines. That fact that everything besides Safari works certainly means something and the fact that they have different rendering engines is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether a site renders in a browser or not. > Well I don't know what to tell you, except to point out that there's, what, hundreds of thousands of registered Apple developers now? who've all had to go through that form, and there's only a handful of people on that thread, so it's far more likely to be a local issue. Well that's just one example of dozens of people having that problem. Also I have successfully filled out that form my self in the past, as I am a registered apple developer. But just because large amounts of people can use the form successfully does not mean that there isn't a bug affecting other user's like my friend.