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Old Mac won't load AO website or forum - lklivingston - 04-27-2025

An AO mom with a 2015 MacAir can't load either the AO website or the forum.  When she tries, the browser tells her that she can't access it anymore because her browser is too old.

She says:
"I can access youtube and Facebook and Google Docs and not much else.
To access Reddit or Wikipedia or my email I have to reset my time stamp. But resetting my timestamp doesn't work with the AO stuff."

Does anyone have any insight into how we can make this work for her?


RE: Old Mac won't load AO website or forum - Elaine Shutt - 04-27-2025

That's odd. My daughters both use 2015 MacBookAirs, and the website and forum work fine. I wonder if she could free up some space and update the operating system. They are updated to 12.7.6 Monterey.


RE: Old Mac won't load AO website or forum - ARenfrow - 04-27-2025

So it's actually a 2014 that I bought on sale in 2015. We're looking at updating it to Monterey as you suggested but it looks like it requires a 3rd party package purchase to do that because it still has the original operating system that it came with on it. How did you go about uploading it for yours? Apple Tech support told me in 2021 that I couldn't update and had to buy a new laptop. I'm seeing that that information must have been false if you worked out an update on yours.


RE: Old Mac won't load AO website or forum - speedorwinska - 04-27-2025

Are you using safari? Our Mac is too old to update now but I will have to see the details. We can access the website but we use chrome so I don't know if that makes a difference.


RE: Old Mac won't load AO website or forum - ARenfrow - 04-27-2025

No, using Chrome. Safari went out of date on it years ago and I had to switch to Chrome.