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Yahoo! Messenger is a program that allows you to see when your friends log onto the internet. You can then chat, send files, and more with each other. It also includes webcam support, calendars, mail, personals, Growl notifications system and more.
What's New
Version 3.0.1 beta: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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Yahoo! Messenger is a program that allows you to see when your friends log onto the internet. You can then chat, send files, and more with each other. It also includes webcam support, calendars, mail, personals, Growl notifications system and more.
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TGBX reviewed on 05 Nov 2011
Has been in beta for over 5 years. Has not been updated in over 18 months.
Yahoo have basically abandoned this thing. Even Microsoft have leapfrogged Yahoo. Remember when Yahoo came out with video and voice to the hurrahs of the Mac community, and everybody looked daggers at Microsoft for their listless little messenger app? Yeah, that was a l-o-n-g time ago. Yahoo's app hasn't changed in the slightest in the intervening years (the same profile picture bug is still present 5 years later), and Microsoft has given us several significant updates, as well as proper voice/video conferencing (rather than Yahoo's separate/detached ones).
Pointless app. Kill it once and for all.
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Macmasters reviewed on 05 Oct 2011
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/26/mac_os_x_lion_ichat_supports_yahoo_messenger_video_and_voice_chat.html
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trungpt reviewed on 14 Jan 2011
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Splig reviewed on 25 May 2010
Use Adium, unless you need video. I wish they would add that.
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Younkint reviewed on 28 Mar 2010
The picture sharing, video with sound, etc., features of the Windows version will probably never happen on Mac or 'Nix machines if they haven't happened by now...
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There have been 2 releases per year until 2009 when there were, I believe, four. Unfortunately, my joke seems to be a sad reality. While the Windows version has had something like 3 major versions, very little seems to have happened with the Mac OS X version. Only the Linux/*BSD users are more forgotten.
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Although Yahoo seem to be quite serious about iPhone and iPad apps.
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Buzzard reviewed on 27 Mar 2010
Other features seem to work ok from the limited amount of time that I have spent using it. But anything that repeatedly crashes with every signout is not what I would consider to be a useful update.
Back to Adium for me.....
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http://download.yimg.com/ycs/msg/dl/mac/yahoomessenger_3.0build192773.dmg
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This latest version includes a fix for a sign-in issue that some users have been experiencing. When we tested this latest version with some of those users, they found that it did correct their problem.
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System Info:
Powermac G4 733digital audio with upgrades(frankenmac):
1.5GB ram
2ghz powerlogix 7447 processor card
ATTO Express PCI with 36GB 10krpm scsi-160 drive
Geforce 4 Titanium 128MB VRAM
Ultra-Tek133P+ card with 200GB ATA133 drive
10.4.7 PPC, all software up to date.
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MacBook Pro 15"
2.16ghz intel core duo
2GB Ram
100GB SATA 7200-rpm drive.
10.4.7 Intel, all software up to date.
Boot-Camp Beta 1
Windows XP Professional SP2 with ALL updates installed.
Yahoo! Messenger 7.5.0.819 for windows Yahoo! testing.
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ISP: Alltel DSL 15MB down 368 up.
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Severe bugs labeled with a *
Bugs:
Reproducible:
1. Webcam statistics do not continue to update after a viewer is allowed to view cam, stats stop once a cam invite is sent to someone and they begin viewing.
2. Buddy-list doesn't always refresh best when a mobile user logs out. manual refresh (command-r) no longer present in this beta either. Improving refresh or giving user manual refresh back(recommended) would be nice.
*3. Private messages do not work when using HTTP proxy mode(behind firewall) for connection.
*4. There is no easy way to ignore a user who is harassing. IE a toolbar button or even a menu command. the ONLY way to ignore a user is to open prefs and manually type in their yahoo id, meanwhile all while they PM bomb or do other harassing things. A shortcut to ignore someone is ESSENTIAL and therefor the lack of is a bug not a feature request.
5. Text is not all drag and dropable in all areas. Touchy where you click to drag it. Has to be on text, not a bubble screen name header. Avatars also get dragged or copied to clipboard when using select all.
6. The ichat style white/blue background colors on buddy-list show a cosmetic bug when looking closely. In ichat, each buddy group ALWAYS starts with white. Regardless of last color used in previous buddy group. Cosmetically, it doesn't look quite right on Yahoo! Messenger because it's not universal with iChat.
7. If you mouse-over area where time-stamps are supposed to be (but they are disabled) the time-stamp shows but the drawing is kind of funny and makes text jump around. Not sure if it's a bug or intentional but reporting just in case.
Unable to Reproduce:
*1. I noticed one of my ID's is completely blocked from signing into yahoo messenger 3.0b1, but it signs in fine with 2.5.3 as well as PC 7.5.0.819. On SAME computer, signing in on two other accounts works. it's only "mysticalosm" that indefinitely tries connecting and fails unless i choose firewalled. Which doesn't make sense. My other buddy-lists were able to show id online so i IMed it, sure enough i was able to exchange not only IMs but cam with this id. The messenger client just never realized id was signed in and never updated buddy-list or menu commands to reflect it. it was completely online but THOUGHT it was still connecting indefinitely. I thought I had found a solution by enabling/disabling buddy-list animation but this only worked ONCE...To this moment I have found NO way to get mysticalosm online again besides reverting to 2.5.3 or using PC 7.5 in boot camp.
UPDATE: Further investigating showed it was resolved by logging in and editing buddy-list (removing buddies awaiting authorization is what i did) while on HTTP proxy, then login on normal setting again works again for now.
2. Got an erratic behavior when trying to view cams, would make cam noise but NEVER attempt to connect to cam or even show a cam window. if a user invited me I'd also never see invite just hear cam noise and never get anything..Was only solved by deleting prefs file.
3. Buddy-list sometimes has UI issues. IE clicking ANYWHERE on it will open someone's "I'm mobile" url even if i clicked no where near it. This is only fixed by a relaunch of client. Another encountered UI issue, one time when cam was open it looked like the down arrow was stuck. the highlight cursor kept scrolling down buddy-list indefinitely even if i clicked, pressed up etc...had to relaunch this time too.
4. Sorting list by name/availability doesn't seem to be working, seems to only sort by name either way. (This only occurred with initial use, haven't been able to reproduce)
5. Possible ichat or yahoo messenger possible bug. I have ichat using custom sounds but when yahoo is open, ichat starts using regular sounds again.
6. Disconnects frequently on both wireless and wired connections on PPC and Intel Mac when no other programs are effected of which include amsn, ichat (Connected to aim and googletalk), and icq.
*7. A user was viewing my cam first. Sent me an invite to her cam. When i began to view her cam, she stopped seeing my image and instead my cam was actually broadcasting hers back to her. She was invisible when this happened as well as on PC Yahoo Messenger. Unknown steps to reproduce but definitely a serious bug.
Features:
*Major feature request.
1. Ability to disable nickname/full-name display and use yahoo id's only.
2. Ability to use classic sound sets if we don't like the new ichat inspired ones.
3. Tabbed IMs, ever used Chax for ichat? you'll learn to not live without it. Might also get more feature suggestions there ;)
4. Cam window detached as an option. Buddy-list integration should not be forced.
5. An easier way to adjust fonts/colors than by right clicking in text field or using menu-bar.
6. Classic IM format, Not everyone likes the way ichat does it. Ichat lets you make bubbles clear and put names on left etc to resemble classic format. We need that too as users..
7. Yahoo! 7.x or higher smiley set. the more 3d and better colors ones..as well as the new ones.
http://www.wackyb.co.nz/Yahoo_v7.5/
8. Some web-pages/forums use the improper yahoo:// handler instead of ymsgr like they are supposed to, most apps like adium and my 2.5.3 patch added it as a handler type too just so people can't complain and blame the program for not handling the url wrong..
9. Webcam viewer window statistics, the Sub bar that 2.5.3 had, time of last image received etc.
10. Seems to use address-book entries and yahoo address-book entries. But if you got an entry in yahoo address book that isn't in apples address-book. Should be able to save it to apples ;)
11. Brushed metal is ugly! Don't make me edit the nib files to get rid of it. A pref is very easy to code for this.
12. Color fades/effects on OUR typing not just buddies.
*13. Chat rooms. sure you heard these enough but it is a gimmie. Even if OS X doesn't have DSP truevoice built into OS do to licensing issues..can still have voiceless chat.
14. Ability to view a profile of someone that's not on list. Where you type in users name. Same with view a cam. IE "View Webcam..." "View Profile ..."
15. Voice chat. DSP truevoice for conferences/chat rooms last I knew still had licensing issues with Microsoft's right to codec in their OS and plus no Mac implementation of codec since OS 9's classic player. However Call voip protocol uses a different codec doesn't it? I can see that making it to a mac client.
*16. Menu consolidation. Too many menu's, I lose my plaxo and weather menu's on the PPC mac. Intel mac is wide screen so it's fine.
Last updated 07-09-06
The webcam appears to be a little slower though.
1 question...
Does anyone know how to change the message view so it doesn't look like bubbles? I like the view where it shows the username: message text.
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/support/contacts/ideas.html
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Tommy.andersson rated on 26 Jan 2011
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Egoldy rated on 05 Jan 2011