Scott and Linnea, I'm using Netscape 4.75 to view the census images on Ancestry.com with no problems. I had trouble when I "upgraded" to Netscape 6.2, but I had a lot of other problems with it and eventually went back to 4.75. I'm on a PC with Win98. I wouldn't give up the security of Netscape without a fight! I've been active on the internet for many years and have NEVER had a virus. (Knock on wood!) I have to use IE at work and we have lots of problems with viruses (viri?) I have a hard time believing Ancestry.com would knowingly make itself unusable to Mac and/or Netscape users. I'd give them a call. You're the customer!!! <g> Loretta Linnea wrote: > > >_____________ > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Subject: > > > > [WIRICHLA] census subscription > > From: > > > > Scott Thomson <mchomie@triwest.net> > > Date: > > > > Wed, 29 May 2002 22:28:58 -0500 > > To: > > > > WIRICHLA-L@rootsweb.com > > > > > >Thanks to everyone who responded to my post about problems with the > >Ancestry.com census subscription. Some of you were also having problems, but > >they seemed to be of a different nature. I tried accessing it from my > >computer at work, so it isn't my router or cable modem (unless it is a > >problem with those brands of equipment, since I have the same models at home > >as at work). > > So let me rephrase that -- is anyone else on the list, using a > >Macintosh. having problems? I'm thinking it may be a Mac compatibility > >problem. (At some point over the past week, I ran into a recommendation to > >Ancestry users that they use the latest version of Internet Explorer, 6.0 -- > >which is available only in a Windows version. So perhaps they upgraded Mac > >users out of existence. > > The alternative is a problem with my ISP. I didn't have time to call > >their support line today -- and I suppose it would be just too much of a > >coincidence for somebody on this list to be on triwest.net, or > >airstreamcomm. > > Scott > > > Scott, > > I don't have a Mac, but I am using Windows XP and I find if I want to > view the census, I have to use IE. Netscape doesn't interact well with > the MrSid plug in and when I try to get it to work, it ends up > corrupting my email program (grrrr). I also had problems at first with > the original Mr Sid version, at which time I complained and was told > that I had to use IE, which I am reluctant to do because of security > issues (probably not a problem with a Mac). Have you contacted Ancestry > about your problem? Surely you are not the only Mac user out there. > > Good luck, > Linnea > > ==== WIRICHLA Mailing List ==== > Search the list archives: > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl - put WIRICHLA for > the name of the list