Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta Bug Fixes
The Yahoo Messenger team has cranked out an update of the new yahoo messenger 9 beta. This release fixes some bugs, I have included a list found on their blog detailing the bug fixes. Visit the Yahoo! Messenger 9 website to download the latest and greatest beta.
- Yahoo! ID vs. their full name or nickname. We’ve added this preference back in to the product. Download this latest version, then go to Messenger > Preferences > Appearance.
- New expanded contact list. If you’re finding that this new look is too spacious for you, go to the Contacts menu and select “Compact List”. This will reduce the size of the Avatars and condense the height of your list overall.
- Message formatting in the IM window (the line break after the name rather that starting text on that first line). We’ve developed a set of handy keyboard shortcuts to give you some other options for your IM window. The shortcuts are a temporary fix; we’ll build something more permanent into a future release of 9.0.
- Installation problems for Windows Vista users. In this latest refresh, we’ve made changes to the Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta installer that should fix most of the Vista errors. If you’re on Vista, please give it another try and use our feedback page to let us know if you still encounter issues.
- Games are missing from the IM window. There were some changes to the Yahoo! Games platform that required us to remove them from this version for awhile. We are trying to get them back into a future release of 9.0; we’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, if you love your Pool or Checkers, we recommend returning to Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.
- The LAUNCHcast plug-in, along with all the other plug-ins like Yahoo! 360, still work in 9.0! Just click the Plug-ins button near the bottom of your Messenger window to find them
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November 21st, 2007 at 7:04 pm
My yahoo9Beta can’t connect to the server because of my firewall, but the previos version 8.1 could, and even if I shot down my firewall, it still will not connect.
9beta dose not show the name and picture of my ID or of the other ID’s don’t have them. And this is the moust inconvinient BUG
November 21st, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Firstly I would suggest, making sure you do a complete removal of the earlier yahoo messenger. Then I would say try to install it again. This could solve a lot of problems.
I have it running on three different computers, laptop,work,desktop and haven’t had any problems.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
i have the new beta 9 works just fine thank you yahoo
April 5th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
I have the same ‘yahoo! messenger 9 beta can’t sign in problem’. I completely unistalled, deleted every registry entry containing “yahoo” and reinstalled the app. It worked fine for three weeks, but now I have the same problem. I’m sick of this reinstallation process. can’t wait the final version. yahoo suck anyways
May 28th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
this is so cool! nice work guys! keep it up!