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by: Merlin
Yahoo! Messenger 11.5.0.152
Pros: FINALLY! They added tabs! TABS! Tabs have only existed for a few thousand years for Firefox & other applications...
All joking aside though, what took soooo looooong? Cons: Advertisements. Not just a single ad on your Yahoo, but ad on your webcam, chat window, im window, yahoo, whew!
Ya know, I WOULD like to be able to see the messenger in the midst of the sea of ads! Other Thoughts: Advertisements in yahoo chat take up 1/2 the screen sometimes. And when they take up 75%, I have to close chat & re-enter, just to be able to see what people are saying.
Fix this, please? I mean, ads are nice, yada yada. They aren't, really, but we can put up with them so long as you don't make them FULL PAGE & on every part of YM!
This is the reason I rated it 4, instead of 5 stars.
Maybe 1 ad, or a couple, but not 10 or 12 ad windows, & not take up half the screen, please! Makes me regret I have Yahoo, sometimes! The ads are so tacky! They don't even look like part of YM!
Make the ad space attractive, or give it it's own tabbed window, or something, puhlease?
Thanks!Was this review helpful?   13 out of 20 users found this review helpful.
|  | 2011-12-03 | | | | "Partly better, partly worse!"
by: John
Other Thoughts: + Better & simpler navigation of menus
+ Simplified design
+ Plug-ins crash less often
- Now includes Ads in all chat windows
- Sometimes hangs a while on exit
- Still is bootable from chat rooms
- Still doesn't stop chat bots
- Yahoo 360 makes it hard to see some people's profiles as they should be...Was this review helpful? 47 out of 98 users found this review helpful.
| | 2009-02-27 | | | | "Awful"
by: Junk Buster
Other Thoughts: Much worse than 8.1 version.
In addition to previous reviewer's remarks, 9 beta also has occasions that on exit, it generates this weird error that 8.1 never did.
In addition, I don't use Yahoo to climb mountains, conquer the world, etc etc. They add so many worthless plugins that frequently crash which is BAD because I never even use them!
Worse still, is how it DEFAULTS to showing all the garbage it can, so on a "Clean" install, you have to manually uncheck show plugins, show search bar, and about 5 different things before it is finally clean enough to use.
Not to mention how it defaults to showing yahoo insider "Yech!"
If you include insider, AT LEAST have it disabled by DEFAULT along with live words, and all that other useless and pathetic garbage no-one ever uses.
Yahoo started to get bad right about version 6 or so when they decided throwing everything, INCLUDING the kitchen sink was a GOOD idea.
Not to mention, it still doesn't detect my creative webcam (Worked fine pre-SP2!).
You would think they would at least update it to work good under XP SP2 by now!Was this review helpful? 55 out of 105 users found this review helpful.
|  | 2008-04-30 | | | | "Not ready for prime time!"
by: farpointstation
Other Thoughts: Yahoo! Messenger with Voice 9.0.0.907 Beta with the emphases on "Beta" is not ready for release! I installed under XP Pro and I did have the previous version (Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.421.) installed on my machine. The Beta version would not expand to fit the screen (Maximize or Restore); it would only display in the mini-screen mode. The Beta version defaulted to only a few of my general "Preferences" meaning I had to reset about 70% of my Preferences. It picked-up only half of the entries in "My Friends" list and I noticed other anomalies with previous lists and settings. I over-installed my old version Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.421 and I was back in business! I'll wait for YM's stable version 9.Was this review helpful? 57 out of 110 users found this review helpful.
| | 2007-11-08 | | | | "Awful"
by: Mr Anonymous
Other Thoughts: Interface has been suffering from usability issues lately, such as things like plugins, & all kinds of mess added on top of and underneath the friends list to help make it SUCK!!!!
Good program, fairly easy to use...., after you hide a half dozen things and turn off stuff like live words (who uses that?)
Oh, & if your friend logs on or you use a different id, be prepared to change it all over again.
Fun, fun, fun...
What happened to CLEAN, SIMPLE, EASY to use?
Or have big companies forgot that?Was this review helpful? 48 out of 94 users found this review helpful.
|  | 2007-10-31 | | | | "Horrid"
by: Power User
Other Thoughts: Although necessary for communicating with friends, yahoo has grown from clean & simple to:
PLUGINS!!! Besides this, if yahoo crashes, it brings up a plugins failed to load error. Plus the yahoo search & other useless "features" they added in it.
What happened to keeping the bloat minimal, while maximizing user experience?
Although there are ways around this, it may be best to just use an older lite version of yahoo, such as version 5.5 from oldversion.comWas this review helpful? 57 out of 106 users found this review helpful.
| | 2007-08-20 | | | | "Oh god it's great!"
by: Master
Other Thoughts: Oh god it's great!Was this review helpful? 49 out of 100 users found this review helpful.
| | 2006-05-23 | | | | "Blundering"
by: Resarese
Other Thoughts: I realize that Yahoo has been around for a long time but there is something really wrong with it. I have had Window's 98 and Window's Xp on my computers and I have a lot of trouble with my computer freezing up. Not just while IMing, but when I start my webcam. Everytime I try to start my webcam, POW!, I freeze up and have to restart my computer.If you get lucky enough to get an error message, you cannot send it cause you are froze up. Oh well, I have decidedto go elsewhere, and I am afraid I am telling all of my friends and family that I am changing.I will not say to whom I am changing to. Word of mouth goes a long way.Was this review helpful? 45 out of 87 users found this review helpful.
|  | 2005-12-09 | | | | "Decent"
by: Wyrdfox
Other Thoughts: Ignore the silly complaints about bots. That's the fault of the users, not the program. The program works just fine.Was this review helpful? 38 out of 85 users found this review helpful.
| | 2005-11-22 | | | | "Too Todd M. Sherer"
by: Duh
Other Thoughts: WhahhhhhhhhhhhhhWas this review helpful? 46 out of 94 users found this review helpful.
| | 2005-08-09 | | | | "this stinks"
by: todbran
Other Thoughts: Yahoo messenger was rated pretty high on your site. Obviously you folks don't use it on a regular basis and put up with the BS that comes with it. I've been a Yahoo messenger user for alomg time and the amount of "bots" on this thing is unbelievable! One day I thought that I would test it by going into the 20's love room 12. By the time I got done "ignoring" all of the bots, out of 50 people listed there, 23 were bots. Now, if I were new to computers and was using FreewareFiles to download it, I would be pi**ed off at you for seemingly giving your approval for this crap. I'm not upset at you folks, just at Yahoo. And isn't it convient that there is no place on Yahoo to complain about this. Don't believe me? Download it and see for yourself. Also, after I use theit chat, I receive 3 or 4 emails from porn sites, Hmmmm, I wonder how that happened?! If you want some who has used this crap for years to review it for you, let me know. Sorry to take up your time, just thought you might want to know!
Todd M. Sherer Was this review helpful? 63 out of 111 users found this review helpful.
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