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OK, I reset SMC and PRAM, and made sure I was connected to both AC power and Ethernet - download speed roughly 350 Mbps. Failed at almost exactly the same spot, with the same error message in the installation log. Oh well.

May now try making a different USB installer.
 
BuffyzDead said:
The BoA site works perfectly with Firefox, and also worked perfectly with Safari, prior to this update.

What other things can I try if you. ....or that anyone knows, please?


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Sorry for the delayed reply. I suspect that there are Safari 18.3 / Sonoma use cases that I haven't tried (including the BoA site), so it's likely that Safari 18.3 / Sonoma on iMac 13,2 has issues. My Safari 18.3 testing is not very thorough, so "working well" for me is limited to accessing a few websites (including macrumors). I don't use my OCLP-patched Mac for any secure access (including banking websites) (just my preference), so I don't have much else to say.
 
BuffyzDead said:
You seem quite knowledgeable about these OCLP systems.

I updated an iMac 13,2 to Sonoma 14.7.4., using OCLP 2.2.0

Everything seems to be working perfectly fine except for One single issue.

When I use Safari 18.3, and try to log into my Bank Of America online account, the login pagr loads instantly
but after entering username and passwork,
the login process times out and I get a message on the Safari screen, that the BoA server was not able to connect.

Yet, Safari works perfectly on 1/2 a dozen or so, other secure banking/financial sites.
I tried clearing out the cache, cookies, history, ...multiple restarts, ...and even ran Onyx, to clear out crud/maintenance.

The BoA site works perfectly with Firefox, and also worked perfectly with Safari, prior to this update.

What other things can I try if you. ....or that anyone knows, please?


thank you
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On Sequoia I use an older version of the Safari Technology Preview as my main browser. It's the last version that I can get to work with some of the sites I use. In particular it still seems to work properly with some of cloudflare’s captcha bot blockers and webgl.

I got it by going through archive.org and visiting https://developer.apple.com/safari/resources/

I believe it was about mid August that release 201 came out. I tested some slightly older releases as well, but I couldn't get 202 - 204 to work, so I think 201 is the latest that will work like the older versions of Safari.

I believe this problem with Safari also happens on the latest versions of Ventura Safari, but there is no preview release for Ventura, so you have to be on Sonoma or Sequoia to use this work around if you are affected by these Safari issues.
 
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Hello, guys. Will Sonoma work well on a1278 (macbookpro8.1, macbook pro 13 late 2011) with 16 gb + ssd? I have Mojave via dosdude now.
 
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How about the Nvidia Quadro 4000?
I see on the site it show three digits, not four digits?
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Hi all, I'm running Sonoma 14.7.3 on a 15" 2015 MacBook Pro (via OpenCore) and it's pretty stable. The issue I have now is iOS devices show up in Finder briefly, then disconnect. USB drives and Android devices work fine and I can access storage. Any ideas on how to fix this iOS connection issue?
 
lopuxilo said:
Hello, guys. Will Sonoma work well on a1278 (macbookpro8.1, macbook pro 13 late 2011) with 16 gb + ssd? I have Mojave via dosdude now.
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lopuxilo said:
Hello, guys. Will Sonoma work well on a1278 (macbookpro8.1, macbook pro 13 late 2011) with 16 gb + ssd? I have Mojave via dosdude now.
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I’m running it. I used the OCLP tool to get it going. Using OCLP is easy and uncomplicated. I’ve upgraded to an ssd and 16 gb ram. The video doesn’t seem as crisp as when it was running high sierra. Probably because of the outdated graphics card. Speed seems to be pretty much like bed
 
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Kevo said:
On Sequoia I use an older version of the Safari Technology Preview as my main browser. It's the last version that I can get to work with some of the sites I use. In particular it still seems to work properly with some of cloudflare’s captcha bot blockers and webgl.

I got it by going through archive.org and visiting https://developer.apple.com/safari/resources/

I believe it was about mid August that release 201 came out. I tested some slightly older releases as well, but I couldn't get 202 - 204 to work, so I think 201 is the latest that will work like the older versions of Safari.

I believe this problem with Safari also happens on the latest versions of Ventura Safari, but there is no preview release for Ventura, so you have to be on Sonoma or Sequoia to use this work around if you are affected by these Safari issues.
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Thank you for taking the time to answer.

I managed to get the very latest version of Safari working on the BoA site.
The solution was to re-install Sonoma 14.7.4

Afterwards, everything is working perfectly.
 
deeveedee said:
Sorry for the delayed reply. I suspect that there are Safari 18.3 / Sonoma use cases that I haven't tried (including the BoA site), so it's likely that Safari 18.3 / Sonoma on iMac 13,2 has issues. My Safari 18.3 testing is not very thorough, so "working well" for me is limited to accessing a few websites (including macrumors). I don't use my OCLP-patched Mac for any secure access (including banking websites) (just my preference), so I don't have much else to say.
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Thank you for taking the time to answer.

I managed to get the very latest version of Safari working on the BoA site.
The solution was to re-install Sonoma 14.7.4

Afterwards, everything is working perfectly.
 
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BuffyzDead said:
Thank you for taking the time to answer.

I managed to get the very latest version of Safari working on the BoA site.
The solution was to re-install Sonoma 14.7.4

Afterwards, everything is working perfectly.
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Just don't upgrade safari now. If you do it will go to the v18 and you will run into troubles again. The version that installs with Sonoma is v17 IIRC.
 
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lopuxilo said:
Hello, guys. Will Sonoma work well on a1278 (macbookpro8.1, macbook pro 13 late 2011) with 16 gb + ssd? I have Mojave via dosdude now.
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Until recently I had it running - until water dripping from the ceiling in a basement killed it. Of course it is somewhat slow, but it worked fine. The only thing is: Non-metal graphics aren't supported by quite a few apps (Word, Keynote, iMovie,...). On the OCLP webpage you'll find links to downloads of older versions, that do work.
 
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Sadly I found that nearly all point and click adventure games which use the Visionaire Studio engine crash on launch on Sonoma.
Problem is maybe audio driver related.
I think the games had worked on Monterey and maybe even earlier versions of Sonoma.
Affected games are the Deponia series, for example.
 
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