Asus web interface and Safari

[oharag]

Hello. I have been using Safari on my Mac Mini for a while. I recently went into the web interface for my Asus Zenwifi routers, and noticed a new issue. When I log into my router from Safari - the main page looks familiar. When I click on any of the left side tabs - the interface goes weird - as in the left side tabs disappear, and I only see the center interface. There is no means to get out of this page except for hitting the back button on the browser. This is the first time I noticed this issue. I have upgraded to macOS Monterey recently.

Anyone else having this issue?

When I tried Chrome - the above issue doesn't seem to appear. Please don't say - use Chrome then. I have been using MacOS and safari on my Asus RT-AC88U for 6 years, and up until a few weeks ago with my new Zenwifi routers. This seemed have happened with with my MacOS update or safari update. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Tech9]

How to Hard Refresh and Reload a Page in Safari on your Mac

Do you want to perform a hard refresh on a page in the Safari browser? Learn how to refresh or reload the fresh page content.

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[oharag]

How to Hard Refresh and Reload a Page in Safari on your Mac

Do you want to perform a hard refresh on a page in the Safari browser? Learn how to refresh or reload the fresh page content.

browserhow.com

Hello. I tried the hard reset. It did not work. I even went so far as to clear my cache in Safari - same issue.

 

[L&LD]

6 years was a good run. If others can help you fix this (easily), don't continue banging your head at Apple's wall.

Just use what works for you today.

With so many things changed in the last six weeks, things finally 'breaking' after six years is actually amazing.

 

[jplw]

I have the same problem on Big Sur (11.6.2). It started a few OS updates ago. I now use Firefox for Asus.

 

[Tech9]

It did not work.

I don't use Mac computers, but on my mobile Apple devices all GUI on all Asus routers I have for tests open properly.

 

[Treadler]

Hello. I have been using Safari on my Mac Mini for a while. I recently went into the web interface for my Asus Zenwifi routers, and noticed a new issue. When I log into my router from Safari - the main page looks familiar. When I click on any of the left side tabs - the interface goes weird - as in the left side tabs disappear, and I only see the center interface. There is no means to get out of this page except for hitting the back button on the browser. This is the first time I noticed this issue. I have upgraded to macOS Monterey recently.

Anyone else having this issue?

When I tried Chrome - the above issue doesn't seem to appear. Please don't say - use Chrome then. I have been using MacOS and safari on my Asus RT-AC88U for 6 years, and up until a few weeks ago with my new Zenwifi routers. This seemed have happened with with my MacOS update or safari update. Any help would be appreciated.

May not be relevant to your situation but, I’ve found Safari access to the Asus router GUI awful on both MacOS & iOS since forever.

My fix (rightly or wrongly) was to change ‘Local Access Configuration’ in the router GUI admin to HTTP.

All good since then. I try HTTPS every so often to see if it’s fixed, but no go thus far…..

 

[jplw]

It works in Safari on 10.15.7. This is absolutely an Apple issue in my opinion.

 

[Tech9]

My fix (rightly or wrongly) was to change ‘Local Access Configuration’ in the router GUI admin to HTTP.

There is no point using HTTPS on home LAN anyway.

 

[jplw]

I already use just http and it does not work on mac os 11+

 

[oharag]

Well I figured I would try this on my iPhone using Safari - and it works without issue. So yeah this seems like desktop Safari issue. This happened somewhere in the past 3-4 weeks. I remember upgrading Safari recently as well.
I have no problem using Chrome on Mac - but main browser is Safari on Mac and iPhone/iPad. It seems to at least work on mobile devices.

 

[oharag]

It works in Safari on 10.15.7. This is absolutely an Apple issue in my opinion.

I'm running Version 15.2 (17612.3.6.1.6)! Though I know for a fact I accessed web interface for Asus about 3-4 weeks ago and it worked without issue. I was just trying something out today and noticed the issue.

 

[oharag]

I submitted Feedback to Apple. We will see if this goes no where There was a question from Apple whether "Private Relay (Beta)" was on/off. It was off for me. I turned it on to see if it changed anything - no - same issue.

 

[soccerjoshj07]

My RT-AX57 Go does not like me using my mobile Safari browser. Same issues and sometimes page doesn’t load at all with an error. No issues with the chrome app on my iPhone.

 

[NSNE]

Safari uses WebKit, a different rendering engine to Chrome, which has become the standard backend for a number of browsers. Because of Chrome's ubiquity, most developers tend to optimize for it. It was the same thing with Internet Explorer back in the day ("This site is best viewed in IE").

My go-to client for all my LAN GUIs is desktop Firefox, as I've found most things work with it right out of the box on all OSes. Vivaldi (both desktop and mobile) is my second favorite for HTTP/HTTPS LAN clients, but in the past I've noticed some jankiness in its rendering of the Asus router GUI — for example, on the AiMesh page. Safari is my primary web browser for almost everything else. I just checked, and the latest desktop version of Safari (18.3.1 on macOS Sonoma) works just fine with my 89X GUI.

[EDIT: Just accessed the 89X GUI on mobile Safari (iOS 18.3.x) and it was perfect.]

 

[soccerjoshj07]

On an iPhone, I thought even the Chrome app uses the same webkit driver (could be wrong).

Either way, other Asus's work just fine on Safari just having issues with the AX 57 Go with mobile Safari. I'll just learn to live with Chrome when going to a a hotel

 

[iFrogMac]

I'm on macOS Monterey, it's the last officially supported OS this late 2015 iMac can run. The latest version of Safari that is compatible with Monterey is 17.6, and I am running the last version of Monterey 12.7.6. I've never had issues with Asus and Safari, the one thing I have to do different though is to refresh the site with the reload button to get the autofill password / username to come up. Besides that, it seems to work normally. With that said, I also prefer Firefox, or Chrome, I never cared for Safari as a browser compared to the other two, and I've been an Apple user since close to the beginning of the company.

By the way, Safari has always been known to have incompatibilities with certain sites here and there, that's why I don't use it as my main browser.

 

[drabisan]

On an iPhone, I thought even the Chrome app uses the same webkit driver (could be wrong).

Either way, other Asus's work just fine on Safari just having issues with the AX 57 Go with mobile Safari. I'll just learn to live with Chrome when going to a a hotel

On IOS Apple still enforces Webkit - no browser have any choice.