Mac OS X Browser Configuration
Netscape (versions prior to 8) or Mozilla
About Safari and IE
Browsers running on Mac OS X should be able to use centrally-configured settings through the Network System Preferences. We have found that this works for most of them, except IE. In the case of Safari, it does work, but it can be very, very slow. It may still be best to use one of the browsers mentioned above. Also an option for Charles River Campus is use of the VPN*.
* Note that the VPN is available only to students, faculty, and staff who have shown their Boston University ID cards, in person, at 111 Cummington Street or the Medical Campus Library. Most people in the Boston University community will have done this in order to get their BU login name and Kerberos password. However, distance-learning students may have not been to campus to show their BU IDs, so instead must configure Mozilla Firefox to use the proxy service.
