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May 30, 2008 at 1:00 pm #28865DermotParticipant
Yahoo! yesterday released a new build of it’s 9.0 Beta of Yahoo Messenger.
Download Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.0.1389 Here
This version includes a few new features along with bug fixes, stability and speed improvements, plus some changes to the contact list. Here’s a quick look at what’s new:
Bigger emoticons
They’re not massive, but a little bit bigger so you can express yourself with more oomph.
( vs. ). We also enabled a few more for use in your status message.Games are back!
We know you missed them in the earlier releases of 9.0, but games are now back! Click the new “Activities” button while you IM to choose a game to play with a friend (or for a plug-in). Checkers, pool, toki toki boom…you know the rest. Note that your friend needs to be on 8.1 or this latest release of 9.0 Beta to play games with you.Status message improvements
The status message menu has been split into two parts – one where you can indicate your availability (busy, available) and the other for putting in a custom message or a link you want to share. That way even if you’re away from IM, you can still share a funny thought, webpage or video with your friends via your status message.Yahoo! Updates
Yahoo! Messenger is one of the first products to showcase what your friends are doing on Yahoo!. When a friendbuzzes a favourite news story or changes their Avatar, a Yahoo! Update is displayed next to that friend in your contact list (with more detail in their contact card). So even if you’re not actively communicating with them, you can still stay up to date with what they’re doing. To manage what Updates you broadcast, click on your display image in the contact list, then click the “Manage my updates” link. We’ll add more types of updates in the future.New contact list format button
When we first launched 9.0 Beta, a lot of users weren’t crazy about the extra space in the contact list we created for display images and status messages. So we made two views available for your contact list – detailed or compact. In this latest version, we added a button next to the contact search bar to change it, along with other settings like “Show Offline Contacts”.Import Contacts – new & improved
Select “Import Contacts” from the Contacts menu and you can add friends from address books you have on other sites like Gmail, Orkut, Yahoo! Address Book, Hotmail, AOL and many more. We’ll pull in your contacts and make it easy for you to start talking with them on Yahoo! Messenger.Voice in chat rooms for Vista users & faster Captcha process
We know our Windows Vista users have been waiting a really long time for this. We added a fix to this latest version of Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta that allows Windows Vista users on 9.0 to use voice in chat rooms (and conferences). We also changed the chat room verification process. You can now enter the Captcha code right in the chat room window instead of having to go off to another page.New IM notification toast
If your IM conversation window falls into the background, this new feature will make sure you don’t miss out on the latest message from your friend. When a new message comes in to the background window, a small notification will pop up from the lower right corner of your screen with the beginning text of the IM your friend just sent. (You can turn this off under Messenger > Preferences > Alerts & Sounds.)We’ve also welcomed some new countries to Yahoo! Messenger with this latest release. If you’re in Columbia,Chile, Peru or Venezuela, we now have versions of Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 in your local language.
Video of New build Here
May 30, 2008 at 2:47 pm #169805imported_Ven0mMemberKeep in mind this version is extremely buggy, especially when using Vista.
May 30, 2008 at 5:58 pm #169804DermotParticipantYou notice sarah don’t like the buddylist ad either 😛
May 30, 2008 at 10:50 pm #169816VvWolverinevVParticipantzomg, another beta?
May 31, 2008 at 12:35 am #169806imported_Ven0mMemberSuper beta, lawl. Well, it would be if it wasn’t buggy. Here’s what I got on the old bug list so far…
1. On Windows Vista, opening the Preferences window results in some lag before it opens. Works fine on XP, as it opens instantly.
2. On Windows Vista, navigating the preferences window is sometimes slow, and it lags when clicking on options.
3. On Windows Vista, the placement of the Messenger list window against the right edge of the screen and existing, results in Messenger not saving the exact placement. It’s slightly a couple pixels above and to the left of the absolute edge of the screen. Tested with a 1152×864 screen resolution.
4. Instant Message window sizes are not remembering once you exit Yahoo! Messenger v9.0.0.1389, nor are they respecting the existing Height and Width registry keys.
5. Avatars and display pictures seem to automatically “hide” themselves at random, depending if the person signs off or on, or in a chat.
6. In the “has been automtically ignored for sending too many messages.” message, there’s a typo. Automatically not automtically.
7. Auto-ignore is too sensitive, resulting if somebody posts over 3 times quickly. I’d extend this to at least 7 in a short time.
8. There is a server issue or a Messenger issue occurring when using Messenger v9.0.0.1389 where messages are received or sent doubled. People on lower versions of Messenger can confirm it occurs, as messages from a user using v9.0.0.1389 are doubled.
9. There is still unskinned areas of the voice chat area of the chat window when voice is active, resulting in a dark grey area.
10. The Messenger list ad, can sometimes overlap the bottom of the window, partially overlapping the Plugins/Add Contact area.
11. Using “Ignore anyone not on my Messenger List” still results in chat text not being seen.
12. There is no way to turn off the tooltips in Messenger, other than a registry key from the v8.1.0.421 build.
13. In all versions of Messenger, the sign out of chat notification after the 3 hour limit is not received anymore. You don’t receive the exit room packet.
14. If you have Messenger set to display Nickname or First and Last Name, and your contact details are blank, it’s supposed to show your ID. While it does this, in the process it shows the main ID for all alias IDs.
June 2, 2008 at 12:13 am #169822gt8ost4lMemberlol you just found out, that version has been there for months lol and i wouldnt recommend it until it comes outta beta which is worth the wait
June 2, 2008 at 3:15 am #169807imported_Ven0mMemberNo, this version has not been there for months. This is an major improvement over the last beta, 9.0.0.922.
June 2, 2008 at 11:28 am #169818Doris KenneyParticipantI’m on Vista and patiently waiting for a more stable version. Will it ever be released?? What are we now? Over a year past the original predictions for a real Vista version?
I guess on the bright side, buggy or not, betas being released means progress and that’s better than silence right?
June 2, 2008 at 7:07 pm #169808imported_Ven0mMemberYahoo and stability? Those two don’t mix… like oil and water. =P I have a feeling they’ll finalize it with lots of bugs.
June 2, 2008 at 8:57 pm #169819nshahzadMemberI’m seeing alot of the same bugs as you, on Vista.
Another one: The buddy list window doesn’t remember the size or location either.I don’t see what’s new about the toaster popup, other versions had that as well.
June 2, 2008 at 9:24 pm #169820nshahzadMemberOk: I got it to save the window size. I opened one window, sized it, opened another and sized that one, closed them both and opened one, it stayed the right size. But it looses it when you restart YM, but I guess if you stay online for a while it’s ok for now.
June 2, 2008 at 9:53 pm #169809imported_Ven0mMemberYep, I have an updated bug list I should post…
1. On Windows Vista, opening the Preferences window results in some lag before it opens. Works fine on XP, as it opens instantly.
2. On Windows Vista, navigating the preferences window is sometimes slow, and it lags when clicking on options.
3. On Windows Vista, the placement of the Messenger list window against the right edge of the screen and existing, results in Messenger not saving the exact placement. It’s slightly a couple pixels above and to the left of the absolute edge of the screen. Tested with a 1152×864 screen resolution.
4. Instant Message window sizes are not remembering once you exit Yahoo! Messenger v9.0.0.1389, nor are they respecting the existing Height and Width registry keys.
5. Avatars and display pictures seem to automatically “hide” themselves at random, depending if the person signs off or on, or in a chat.
6. In the “has been automtically ignored for sending too many messages.” message, there’s a typo. Automatically not automtically.
7. Auto-ignore is too sensitive, resulting if somebody posts over 3 times quickly. I’d extend this to at least 7 in a short time.
8. There is a server issue or a Messenger issue occurring when using Messenger v9.0.0.1389 where messages are received or sent doubled. People on lower versions of Messenger can confirm it occurs, as messages from a user using v9.0.0.1389 are doubled.
9. There is still unskinned areas of the voice chat area of the chat window when voice is active, resulting in a dark grey area.
10. The Messenger list ad, can sometimes overlap the bottom of the window, partially overlapping the Plugins/Add Contact area.
11. Using “Ignore anyone not on my Messenger List” still results in chat text not being seen.
12. There is no way to turn off the Messenger tips (in the IM windows) in Messenger, other than a registry key from the v8.1.0.421 build.
13. In all versions of Messenger, the sign out of chat notification after the 3 hour limit is not received anymore. You don’t receive the exit room packet.
14. If you have Messenger set to display Nickname or First and Last Name, and your contact details are blank, it’s supposed to show your ID. While it does this, in the process it shows the main ID for all alias IDs.
15. There is no code to disable the automatic voicing upon chat arrival. None of the Enable Voice keys work anymore.
16. My Profiles provides no way to turn profile IDs “inactive”.
17. There is no way to perform : emotes in chat rooms.
18. Changing skins causes the avatar to appear stretched. You have to change the size, then back again to fix it.
19. Webcams seem to lag Messenger when you close them. Tested on Windows Vista Home Premium.
20. Taskbar flashing for new messages received in chats don’t work anymore.
21. MessageFormatting seems to reset at random, and it applies itself to the chat room. It should save, and it shouldn’t apply to the chat window.
22. On Windows Vista, Messenger’s windows seem to “lag” for at least 15 seconds. If you click on it during this time, Messenger will crash.
23. Chat room window appears after you exit chats, if you have Messenger minimized to tray and you bring it back up.
24. Horizontal scrollbar still appears in the chat room user list if you minimize and restore the window.
25. Yahoo! Messenger is slow to startup and sign-in, and it lags when you exit it.
26. On Windows Vista, clicking on names and other things, causes the system to beep in error.
June 3, 2008 at 3:28 am #169814ysatisMemberThis version of Yahoo Messenger doesn’t like my Firefox.
Whenever I click on a link in the message window, some error message pops up that says “Windows cannot find http (I cannot insert it ’cause I don’t have 10 posts)…..Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button, and then click Search”.
The browser opens but every time I get that error.
No problem with IE, not a problem with Safari for Windows, just with Firefox. I have XP SP2. I made no changes just uninstall 922 version and install 1389.
I guess I’ll go back to 922 because I use mostly Firefox.June 3, 2008 at 3:34 am #169810imported_Ven0mMemberWhat version of Firefox? I have v3.0 RC1 and no problems here.
June 3, 2008 at 3:47 am #169815ysatisMemberThank you for your quick reply.
Firefox 2.0.0.14. I tried RC1 but I switched back to 14 because Google Toolbar was not compatible with RC1. -
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