ipay.adp.com vs. Safari

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Barry Margolin - 21 Oct 2006 03:25 GMT

I recently started a new job, and one of the great things was that I was
able to get them to give me a MacBook as my desktop computer.

However, the web site they use for employees to view their pay stubs is
ipay.adp.com. For some reason, this site doesn't work with Safari.
Does anyone else use this site, and have they figured out how to make it
work?

I was able to get in with Firefox, but when you get to viewing your stub
it's a PDF. To make this display in the page I had to install PDF
Browser Plugin, and since this is a PPC-only binary I had to make FF run
in Rosetta (Intel binaries can't use PPC plugins), and the slowdown was
noticeable.

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BreadWithSpam@fractious.net - 21 Oct 2006 14:33 GMT

> However, the web site they use for employees to view their pay stubs is
> ipay.adp.com. For some reason, this site doesn't work with Safari.
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> I was able to get in with Firefox, but when you get to viewing your stub
> it's a PDF. To make this display in the page I had to install PDF

At my previous job, we had ADP. I complained about their site
many times (and more than that, the way they encoded the PDFs
for a while they weren't even readable with the earlier version
of Preview - had to use a later version of Adobe reader).

I want the PDFs to save, though, so the last thing I'd want is for
them to come up inside a plug-in inside the browser. Using
Firefox or Camino, it simply automatically downloads to the
desktop. Where I rename it by putting the date at the beginning
of the filename and then file it away. So I'd just ditch the
plug-in.

So while I can't really help you (re fixing the plug-in, which
I'd not want anyway), I can at least verify that it's not just
you, it's a bad bad web page.

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Barry Margolin - 22 Oct 2006 04:54 GMT

> So while I can't really help you (re fixing the plug-in, which
> I'd not want anyway), I can at least verify that it's not just
> you, it's a bad bad web page.

I know it's not me. Other Mac users at work already confirmed it, and
so did the woman in the Payroll Dept when I told her that I was having
trouble going through the initial account setup (it always complained
that the personal identification data I entered was not correct).

I just thought someone might have figured out a workaround.

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