My dad has a 2012 Mac Mini (Catalina, current) that he’s still using just fine, but it’s having a challenge with Facebook. I’ve confirmed that my 2012 Mini has the same issue. He’ll go to a page with an embedded video, and he’ll get the error message:
“There was a problem with this request. We’re working on getting it fixed as soon as we can.”
from Facebook. Consistently. In all browsers on the computer, including Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. And my 2012 Mini (Catalina, current) does the same. My 2018 Mini works great.
Obviously that’s just a generic Facebook message, but the fact that it’s in all browsers on the computer, on two different Mac Minis, makes me wonder if there might be something with root certificates or the OS that just isn’t playing nice - and could maybe be fixed.
I can’t imagine there’s something specific to the hardware that would cause a problem, is there?
This is a total stab in the dark, but… he doesn’t still have Flash installed, does he? I was just hypothetizing that if the browsers saw that Flash was installed, maybe they were trying to use it?
Seems extremely unlikely (especially if multiple browsers are seeing the same issue) but stranger things have happened, so I figured it didn’t hurt to ask.