Safari woes

[RogerS]

No, sorry, not been eaten by a lion but Safari 9.1.3 running on OSX 10.9.5

Increasingly I'm finding more and more sites not functioning properly with Safari and I have to use other browsers such as Chrome or Firefox. Which is not ideal since Safari dovetails neatly in with Keychain Access and so usernames and passwords get auto-populated etc.

I realise that Apple have stopped supplying updates for Safari 9.1.3 but these usually only relate to security type issues.

Is it that there are changes out in HTML/Java/Flash/whatever world that makes this happen ?

I can only update Safari to a later version if I also update OSX...and I'd rather not do that.

 

[MusicMan]

I'd have thought a later Safari would work on 10.9.5. Anyway, I've updated every OSX version, now on 10.13.1 and have had no issues at all. And it's free.

The only problem I have is with seeing pics posted on Photobucket, which ought to be proscribed!

 

[RogerS]

Not a great fan of Photos and also my iMac runs like a dog on any later version than 10.9.5

Safari is 'part' of OSX and as such if it's not part of the native OSX version , as it were, and anything later than 9.1.3 is not....then you can't put a later version on.