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Alternately, I have used Firefox and Safari (both Mac versions) to conduct my research with Ancestry.coms vast search archives.

Before I will explain why Ancestry wont support Safari (for Mac or Windows), I will explain this: I find using Safari on Ancestry.com to be much faster than Firefox (webpage refresh, graphical content loading, editing data, accessing to search archives).

When I used Firefox, I founded that its slow and bit cumbersome, especially page refreshing and loading of content after editing data or accessing to search archives.

On Safari, page refreshing (command-r) and content loading to completion lasted about 2 to 3 seconds; on Firefox, it varies from 3 to 5 seconds.

Im on 2 MBps Internet speed (its all I can afford under my ISP plan) under Mac OS X.4.11, PPC-based G4.

However, the biggest frequent and annoying issue I have with Ancestry.com while using Safari is bad server response.

At times, I had Firefox and Safari running at the same time, comparing them while using Ancestry.com.

Under Firefox (ver 3.6.3), using Ancestry.coms search archives or editing a persons data generates no bad server response.

Under Safari, the bad server response pops up almost every time whether editing a persons data, switching to another person or accessing search archives.

The error is bad server response (NSURLErrorDomain:-1011) Please choose Safari Report Bugs to Apple, note the error number, and describe what you did before you saw this message.

At one point, I had to com-r about 50 times and finally got a result Reporting bug message to Apple several times produced no results for me.

I dont know why Apple wont reply back to me (I gave them my email address) on this issue.

It appears that Apple wont fix or solve this issue with Ancestry.com.

Few times, I sent messages to Ancestry.com asking for assistance to deal or fix this issue.

Please note that Safari is not a supported browser for use with ancestry.com and we do not have a way of making it completely compatible.

I would rather work with Safari on Ancestry.com because time is of essence for me (for accessing on the fly).

I had encouraged Ancestry.com tech people to consider make the site compatible to Safari, considering that maybe more Ancestry subscribers are using Macs or using Safari for Windows (I dont know the exact numbers of how many subscribers using Mac or Win).

Has any Mac subscriber encounter this bad server response issue while using Safari on Ancestry.com I dont know if this is a web engine issue or programming problem (Im not familiar with the more technical details of the browsers engine and codes).

Its kind of ironic that Ancestry is working on FamilyTreeMaker for Mac soon.

All I wanted from Ancestry.com is to change its attitude regarding Safari and try to work on a positive level with current and potential Mac subscribers to Ancestry.com.

Theyre obviously not interested in Safari, and you cant force them to be, so Im not sure what you want to hear.

Personally if it is working well in Firefox and not Safari it to me says the problem is in Safari end and it is an apple problem.

If it stays there then it is clearly an Apple problem and not an Ancestry.com problem.

Just noticed this post today and wanted to add that I am using Chrome with Ancestry and having no issues.

Why Can'T I Sign Into Ancestry.Com On Chrome For The Mac