Companies House has an silently anti-Macintosh website.

If you try and file your company reports from a Macintosh using any of Chrome, Safari or Firefox, you will encounter the following when you try to log in having saved-and-resumed a session:

WebFiling has logged you out as the browser ‘Back Button’ was used or a button was clicked twice. Please re-enter your login details below to return to WebFiling.

Fortunately it was Google FTW:

My solution was to use Opera – the “other” free Mac browser [www.opera.com]. I tested it on the only Annual Return that I have “current” at the moment. That is to say, I started under Safari, then crashed myself out, then went back in and got thrown out in the usual way. So I went back in using Opera and it worked fine … but it is only a single instance and not statistically significant. We need some more evidence that it works!

Opera (non-WebKit?) worked fine, so my reports are in; but sheesh, in this day and age? …

Comments

2 responses to “Companies House has an silently anti-Macintosh website.”

  1. Incidentally, once CH get around to reading this:

    1) There is no Internet Explorer for Macintosh any more, there has not been for several years.

    2) I don’t really want to download and use Opera just for this one task.

    3) My reports/filing was prepared by my accountant, so I had to log in, check, and submit them, and was not in a position to “Delete Everything And Start Over” else I would get billed more _by_ said accountant.

    4) I would like this fixed, rather than have a workaround.

  2. Bob

    Or you could go to Firefox add-ons and fine User Agent Switch in which you can pretend that your cross platform compliant browser is IE7 or any other lower standard. This makes CH website work. Here is a link – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

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