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Title: QuickBooks Online Now Available to Mac Users
Post by: sandbox on May 06, 2009, 09:51:48 AM

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Safari 4? Firefox?

The current release only supports Safari 3.1. Firefox for Mac and the Safari 4 beta will not work. I did try setting the user agent to Safari 3.2.1 using the Develop menu in the Safari 4 beta, and everything seems to work, but Intuit will not support this configuration. Make sure you uninstall the Safari 4 beta, or just live with any potential quirks when setting the user-agent to a different value.

http://www.salon.com/tech/giga_om/mac_love...sers/index.html

Title: QuickBooks Online Now Available to Mac Users
Post by: krissel on May 07, 2009, 03:53:34 AM

Oh, poo, I thought it was going to be free.  

Title: QuickBooks Online Now Available to Mac Users
Post by: Paddy on May 07, 2009, 08:31:49 AM

Well, there is a free version - but you have to be running Safari 3.1 - 3.x and though I thought I still had it, it would seem that Safari 4 has overwritten all my Safari 3 stuff. (?) Anyway, go to: http://oe.quickbooks.com/ and try it out. I'm afraid I'm not going to screw up my installs of Webkit and Safari 4 by installing Safari 3, just to see whether QB online works, since I don't think I need it for anything right now!

Typical of Intuit to make something only work with an OUTDATED version of one Mac browser... (Why no Firefox compatibility for both Windows and Mac users??)

Title: QuickBooks Online Now Available to Mac Users
Post by: Xairbusdriver on May 07, 2009, 10:37:51 AM

The ßeta and older versions of Safari cannot be on the same boot volume (actually any mounted volume, I think). The OS apparently will get confused as to which app to run. Actually not illogical, since two versions of the same app, with identical names would confuse most any OS.

But the Safari ßeta doesn't exactly overwrite the older version(s), but it does move them to a hidden location. It still uses the old prefs and most other ancillary files, AFAIK. The ßeta Installer comes with an UNinstaller that basically removes the ßeta and restores the old version to visibility and usefulness. I didn't know this, but it didn't matter since I just deleted the new version and uncompressed the old one. That's an old habit which worked in this case, but I can't guarantee all cases.

The point is, when an Installer has an UNinstall option (often hidden, check all the buttons/tabs/popup menus) it might be a good idea to save that Installer, just in case.