Help with firefox please!

[Hicks.]

I'm trying to logon to this site http://blackboard.cem.ac.uk/webapps/login but Firefox can't do it (neither can safari).

I've played about with the java and scripting settings but to no avail!

Can anybody else log on to this?

What a nightmare - just started a course and can't log on to the website!

 

[WildCowboy]

Are you sure it's not an error on their end?

I'm also getting an error, but I know that Macs are supported for Blackboard.

 

[Unspeaked]

If you can access the debug menu in Safari, trying fooling the site into thinking you're using IE7.

That works sometimes for sites that won't normally load on a Mac.

(If you don't have the debug menu, check out Version Tracker. There's plenty of freeware utilities that will allow you to access it...)

 

[Hicks.]

Are you sure it's not an error on their end?

I'm also getting an error, but I know that Macs are supported for Blackboard.

AHHH!!! It was their end! Just fired up my old XP PC and I get the same result!

Just spent nearly two hours messing about!

It's reassuring to know that Macs (Firefox?) are supported by Blackboard- thanks for that.

 

[WildCowboy]

Thought it might be...I don't use Blackboard stuff myself, but I think Safari is their preferred browser for the Mac platform. Firefox probably works just fine as well.

 

[Hicks.]

Just a little update to this; it's working fine today!

And the moral of the story is.... don't always think it's your fault, when something doesn't work!

Oh and BlackBoard doesn't have a patch on vBulletin!

 

[jessep28]

Thought it might be...I don't use Blackboard stuff myself, but I think Safari is their preferred browser for the Mac platform. Firefox probably works just fine as well.

I use the blackboard system extensively and have no problems on my end.