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.
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.
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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 Probably because of the outdated graphics card.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
Thank you for taking the time to answer.
Thank you for taking the time to answer.
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.
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.
In the first sentence you ask if there's a way to do it, then in the second sentence you seem to know about how to find them?
2013macpro:~ root# date ; echo ''; softwareupdate -l ; echo ''; date
Tue Apr 1 22:16:24 PDT 2025
Software Update Tool
Finding available software
2025-04-01 22:16:26.582 softwareupdate[30356:31171101] XType: Using static font registry.
Software Update found the following new or updated software:
* Label: Safari18.4SonomaAuto-18.4
Title: Safari, Version: 18.4, Size: 188869KiB, Recommended: YES,
* Label: macOS Sonoma 14.7.5-23H527
Title: macOS Sonoma 14.7.5, Version: 14.7.5, Size: 13316950KiB, Recommended: YES, Action: restart,
* Label: macOS Sequoia 15.4-24E248
Title: macOS Sequoia 15.4, Version: 15.4, Size: 15218978KiB, Recommended: YES, Action: restart,
Tue Apr 1 22:16:30 PDT 2025Okay, I’ll revise my question. Is it okay, if you are using OCLP, to install updates using the softwareupdate command? I know the command syntax. Just concerned whether it’s safe to use the method
That’s a good question. I don’t know.
That's my concern. If OCLP intervenes in some manner and downloads the update to a different location and stages it differently, that's a problem if using softwareupdate command does an end run around the correct process. I asked the same question at the OCLP Discord channel but haven't seen any responses.
I have to alter my statement: Quite a few pages cause Safari to panic on my MBA6,2... I will avoid Safari for now.