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non-safari browsers no internet on non-admin

Chrome/Firefox/Safari/Opera all work on my admin account.

I setup a non-admin account, and when using that account only Safari can access the internet.

Fast-switching back to the admin account, all browsers still work.


I haven't set anything else up such as parental controls. This is a brand new user account.


What do I need to enable to let non-Safari browsers access the internet?

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Jul 8, 2023 8:24 AM

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Posted on Jul 15, 2023 1:32 PM

I don't understand what changed (I didn't make the second account admin or anything like that.)


But now it works.


I have done a system update since then, so maybe Apple patched something in the back-end.

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Jul 8, 2023 8:45 AM in response to jabrwock

jabrwock wrote:

Chrome/Firefox/Safari/Opera all work on my admin account.
I setup a non-admin account, and when using that account only Safari can access the internet.
Fast-switching back to the admin account, all browsers still work.

I haven't set anything else up such as parental controls. This is a brand new user account.

What do I need to enable to let non-Safari browsers access the internet?


Seems odd— never heard of such a thing.


I would use what works...


why a second account to begin with(?)

What happens if you give the second user admin privileges...



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