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New Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta

October 29, 2007 on 9:12 pm | In 9.0 version |

Introducing Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta, the next version of our popular IM software for Windows. This new version has a whole new look and feel, along with some great new features that make it well worth the upgrade. Here’s a quick look at what’s new in Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta:

- A whole new look for your contact list. Keep it in detail view to see larger Avatar images for your friends, or switch to compact list view (in the Contacts menu). Plus, you can just hover and click to IM, SMS or call a friend.

- Brand new skins and emoticons! Click the dot near the top of your Messenger window to choose a skin, and check the emoticon menu for the new ones that were inspired by user entries in our Emoticontest earlier this year (more on our winners in a future post).

- New Flickr integration in the photo sharing feature. Easily share photos from your Flickr.com account, or save photos shared with you directly to Flickr.

- A new in-line media player that makes it easy to view maps, photos and videos from sites like Yahoo! Video and YouTube right in the IM window. No plug-ins needed, no extra downloads — it’s built right in. Just send a video, map or photo link to another friend who’s also on 9.0 to try it out.

- New features for voice calls. You can have your incoming Phone In or free PC calls forwarded to another number like your mobile, home or office phone, even if you’re signed out of Messenger (Phone Out account required). Plus there’s a new way to get voicemail. When someone leaves you a voicemail in Messenger, an email is sent to you with an MP3 of the voice message attached.

Download Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta

Here’s a brief video that demonstrates the new features of Yahoo! Messenger 9.0:



The new Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 also offers localized versions in six new markets: Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India (Hindi), and Vietnam. With these additions, Yahoo! Messenger is available in 25 international markets.

As with any new Beta software, Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 is not perfect but we think we got most of the major bugs out. But we need your help to put it through its paces! Install it, give it a run for its money, and then provide your input (good or bad!) on our feedback page. Your comments will help us improve on it for the final release early next year.

I know that many of our Windows Vista users are eagerly awaiting the Beta launch of Yahoo! Messenger for Vista. Don’t worry – we’re still working hard on it and hope to have it to you very soon. In the meantime, we hope you’ll try out Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 which is designed for both Windows XP and Vista.

We look forward to receiving your feedback on Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta!

Sarah Bacon
Product Manager

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  1. yeah.. this looks and feels alright.. but.. wheres yahoo messenger for vista?!?!?!?!??!?!?!? thats waht im waiting for!

    Comment by Alex — October 29, 2007 #

  2. download install file by msgr9us.exe always slow and it doesn’t store install file on the disk for long. Why don’t you allow us downloading the install file directly, update would be done later

    Comment by Trần Tiến Ngọc — October 29, 2007 #

  3. Here are some of my Points which I’ve noted about Yahoo! Messenger Version 9.0 Beta:

    1: The new added feature In-line media player is pretty cool;
    2: I’ve got a problem in Chatroom. After verifying Captcha, it was’nt responding. It was’nt showing anything on Chat Screen and user list. But my ID was in room and I was receiving messages in room from another ID, which I Loged in on Chat Client. My couple of friends got same problem;
    3: It looks like some kind of cartoon show and I love cartoon shows lol.

    Its my request for Product Manager to please let me know about the problem which I have noted in my 2nd point.

    Many Thanks,
    Hunter.

    Comment by Hunter — October 29, 2007 #

  4. Great, i love this, but still looking forward for the one for Vista. Hope that it will be out after i finish my exam next 2 weeks.

    Comment by Alan Nguyen — October 30, 2007 #

  5. I have problems with installing it went always down when I try to intall it. Im using Windows Vista.

    Comment by Longinus — October 30, 2007 #

  6. Hi,

    At first glance it seems like a UI improvement, especially the contact list. Job well done.

    The only gripe I have with the contact list, and always have had, is there is no ability to separate offline and online contacts into groups, rather than having all contacts appear or just online contacts appear.

    Rather than using CTRL+H, it is easier to open the offline group, and send off a message to an offline contact this way.

    Comment by No Name — October 30, 2007 #

  7. Bug

    Sending a file (an mp3) causes messenger to crash on my end each time. It doesn’t affect the person on the other end.

    Comment by No Name — October 30, 2007 #

  8. I found at least one element which annoys me every time the contact window is opened: the communication bar which appears under a contact name, requiring you to choose from instant messaging, VoIP chat or SMS. Please let us disable it, or at least let us make the IM option default. Thanks.

    Comment by Kelu Angello — October 30, 2007 #

  9. no point installing this if the Vista version is incoming. Or maybe that is the point…? (Vista version is faaaar away). Nice for those still using XP though, good job.

    Comment by Al — October 30, 2007 #

  10. Does LAUNCHcast work with this new 9.0 beta?

    Comment by Geoff — October 30, 2007 #

  11. Great.. now HOW DO I get rid of the stupid SKINS? I actually need my RAM to hold important data… if this doesn’t get resolved… I’m switching to a 3rd party client… I don’t need 64-bit bitmaps or whatever is in those 12 megs of the new kit…

    Comment by Gigi — October 30, 2007 #

  12. I like the all new look and the new emoticons. Skins are way better and easier to design. The all new buddy list look is great.

    Comment by Trap — October 30, 2007 #

  13. I am haveing problem logging in with 9.0.0 on Vista, with proxy setting. Does anyone else have this kind of problem?

    Comment by pcatalin — October 30, 2007 #

  14. Thanks for listening to me and other romanians that wanted to be able to write correctly with Yahoo Messenger. YM 9 beta allows me to write Ș and Ț that were until now displayed as question marks, because YM 8 was not fully Unicode compatible and did not recognize those characters.

    Now all would be perfect if only YM would be translated in romanian as Windows Live Messenger and Pidgin already are…

    Comment by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu — October 30, 2007 #

  15. Geoff, Launchcast is available but I cannot click on any station :-s

    The new beta looks great. Kudos to the messenger team. I cannot wait to have a couple of friends online and try the new features.

    Thank you.

    Comment by Marcel — October 30, 2007 #

  16. So far looks ok, atleast this version fixed the problem we were having while connecting to voice in chatrooms. That part of the problem has been resolved.

    Can we now have a captcha popup box instead of a link opening in web browser window when joining chatrooms ? Yahoo used to have a captcha box when account got locked, to verify the account before logging in. Why can’t the yahoo engineers develop something like that for chatroom?

    Comment by Rick — October 30, 2007 #

  17. sounds like more bloatware with more frivolous features instead what Users want — a messenger that works and Chat that isn’t an ORDEAL.

    Comment by mourning_still — October 30, 2007 #

  18. My concern right now is the removal of the option to toggle between nicknames and Yahoo IDs. Please add this feature back, because I don’t like nicknames at all.

    Also, please create an option to allow the display pictures in the buddy list on the left or right side of the window. It being on the right is very disturbing.

    Comment by Venom — October 30, 2007 #

  19. This new 9.0 version has a bug.If you try to go into chat room using Alias, It willnt let u but only the main id. YAHOO GUYS Fix this ATLEAST.

    Comment by Zammy — October 30, 2007 #

  20. The skins look great and make the “top” of Yahoo look great. BUT, why was the rest of messenger backgrounded with that bland gray? It makes alot of feel like a version of yahoo that you would see in the late nineties..

    Comment by Matt S. — October 30, 2007 #

  21. I simply don’t like it! On of the reasons i liked yahoo messenger was that it didn’t look like the windows live messenger. Better fix it when 10.0 is released…

    Comment by DPD — October 30, 2007 #

  22. Also, when you clean install, there’s a dialog every time you wish to sign out asking if you want to, and there used to be a checkbox saying not to ask it again.

    And Launchcast options are missing. It seems there’s some options missing that were/are in v8.1 and not v9.0 Beta.

    And one last thing. The word filter bug, where it’s always on considering you change the setting is still there. It’s still using the global key, and not the per account WordFilter key.

    Comment by Venom — October 30, 2007 #

  23. I’ve read trough all the post and it’s comments and nobody says anything about the resources it uses. Is it more lighter than 8 ? What are the requirements ? Will it work on slower computers (not that i have one) that have under 128 MB Ram ?

    Thanks.

    Comment by madalin — October 30, 2007 #

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  25. Well, nevermind the sign out dialog, I found the proper one pops up when you try to exit Y!M v9.0 from the system tray.

    Now, can you guys add back the little 360 button by the mail button? It’s one of the things I miss. Also, I’d like to make the suggestion to add a small feature to disable the phone out stuff from the top of the contact list, for those who don’t use it.

    Comment by Venom — October 30, 2007 #

  26. im sorry but this new messenger is garbage. the new skins may look ok at the start, but once you join chat it is ugly as hell.

    Comment by geeze — October 30, 2007 #

  27. I don’t like the new chat behaviour. With previous versions the messages go out like this:

    Marcel: message1
    Marcel: message2
    Sarah: message1

    In the beta is:
    Marcel:
    message1
    message2
    Sarah:
    message1

    I really don’t like the first line break is a waste of space, that is one of the things I dislike most of MSN Messenger.

    And also I prefer to see the nick on every message. I hope the old way could be added at least as an option in the next build.

    Comment by Marcel — October 30, 2007 #

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  30. I agree with Marcel here… I dont’t like the empty space after the name looks like, MSN Messenger one of the reasons that i don’t use MSN.

    Comment by H3AT — October 30, 2007 #

  31. I agree with Marcel too. I don’t really like that action.

    Comment by Venom — October 30, 2007 #

  32. One word AWFUL damn even basic skin changing is removed looks like crap wtf is goin on at yahoo!!

    Comment by tommy — October 30, 2007 #

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  34. I second the opinion of others, I don’t like the line breaks. Please give us the option to revert to the old look

    Comment by Bogdan — October 30, 2007 #

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  36. The skins are good…but it only changes the color of the title bar…and the rest of the window is brown …which looks bad…

    i even liked the new feature of adding emoticons to status messages…its cool…but only very few emoticons are supported…and it would have been better if those emoticons where animated !!!

    Comment by pravin — October 30, 2007 #

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  38. Ok, here’s my bugs/issues and annoyance list so far based on my own testing and people reporting here…

    Confirmed Bugs/Issues:

    -Can’t use alias IDs in chat room (I cannot confirm this since alias IDs work for me in the chat rooms).
    -No option to toggle between nicknames and Yahoo IDs (Yahoo! Messenger v8.1 and below has this).
    -Missing LaunchCAST options in Yahoo! Messenger’s preferences.
    -The WordFilter bug is still not fixed. Yahoo! Messenger only reads the global registry key, instead of the per account WordFilter key.
    -The chat room taskbar icon when minimized doesn’t flash on new message arrival (hasn’t since Yahoo! Messenger v7.0).

    Confirmed Annoyances:

    -Inability to toggle between nicknames and IDs. Workaround is to edit all your contacts and remove their contact information (also considered an issue).
    -Inability to turn off the chat room word filter and make it stay off (also considered an issue).
    -New instant message sending bahviour when sending multiple messages. Instead of sending the nickname/ID per line, it groups them under one nickname/ID… example being…
    Venom:
    Message 1
    Message 2
    Somebody:
    Message 1

    Instead of the following (v8.1 and below style)…

    Venom: Message 1
    Venom: Message 2
    Somebody: Message 1

    -LaunchCAST may not work properly when clicking a status button. Other plugins may be broken as well.
    -Can’t get rid of the phone (PC-to-PC bar below your ID) display under your ID and status.
    -The top display picture and buddy list avatars/display pictures are on the right instead of the left (v8.1 and below style).

    Comment by Venom — October 30, 2007 #

  39. The first impression is great! It feels like a complete new application and it’s much smoother than Yahoo Messenger 8. I LOVE the forwarding option I tried it and works excellent. True, I am the one who’s paying but it’s only 1c/min. I can’t decide if I like the chat box which is > Name: message , message, message, all until other user writes something. Google chat has that interface and I was never big fan of it. Sound quality has not improved greatly or at all, but it’s good enough. Final grade (for now): B+

    Comment by Milan J. — October 30, 2007 #

  40. Well, Great!
    Thanks for Thai UI, event I don’t like localized interface but this is really usefull for those who are not good in English.

    Agian, thanks for this and the info of Y!M for Vista.

    Comment by n-blue — October 30, 2007 #

  41. How though?

    Comment by KlcEvelyn — October 30, 2007 #

  42. Hopefully it’ll be a big step ahead from YM 8.1.

    I didn’t try it yet (I usually don’t trust Beta’s) but the new features seem very good implemented and are welcome.

    One thing though: Can you please insert a tab feature in YM 9 (I’m talking about chatting with 3 people in the same window using tabs) ? I’m not quite ready for Vista and I would really like that feature (and I don’t think that I’m alone here).

    Thankx, and good luck with fixing the bugs .

    - SoboLAN -

    Comment by SoboLAN — October 30, 2007 #

  43. Won’t even open for me..

    Will not run on my XP home SP2 machine

    Get reference errors with memory cannot be read

    ——————————————————————————————-

    YahooMessenger.exe - Application Error

    The instruction at “0×009a2744″ referenced memory at “0×00000000″. The memory could not be “read”

    Click OK to terminate the program

    ——————————————————————————————–

    I have tried uninstall/reinstall, reboots, wipes etc to no avail

    I use Eset Smart Security suite and had 8.1.0.421 Y! Messenger installed prior

    The login form opens but crashes on clicking connect with reference to the following

    Appname: yahoomessenger.exe AppVer: 9.0.0.797 Modname: nspr4.dll
    ModVer: 4.6.5.0 Offset: 00004944

    ..yes i posted this to the beta feedback form that doesn’t even tell you if it submitted ok.

    Comment by Dermot — October 30, 2007 #

  44. I’m a big fan of Yahoo Messenger and all its updates but this time I am not ready for this upgrade, for starters it kept signing me out and back in which is really annoying for your contacts, and I’m using Windows XP so I had to roll back to v8.1. The new looks aren’t that great either and some features are lost. Sorry guys, you really need to improve this one.
    I’m gonna give it another try when the new build is released.

    Comment by Monica — October 30, 2007 #

  45. For each contact, there should be space to provice a link to there personal webpage or blog…

    that will be great

    Comment by VJ — October 30, 2007 #

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  47. It’s a blast! I love what you have done with Yahoo! Messenger and I am hoping that the Vista version will be even more cool than this one. Thanks.

    Comment by Alex Trusk — October 30, 2007 #

  48. cant really say i like the new look of this 9.0 beta im going back to 8.1 the look is not that good and theres a lot of things yous need to add back to 9.0

    Comment by Cisco — October 30, 2007 #

  49. it will be nice if you can view your contacts tiled view because i dont like the current view it so so sucks. Also it will be nice to have the contacts by default view like it is in Yahoo Messenger 8.1. I hate the current view it looks ugly and alot of stuff is broke.

    Comment by vb_packets — October 30, 2007 #

  50. Here’s the current bug list with some crashes and other information…

    Confirmed Bugs/Issues:

    -Can’t use alias IDs in chat room (I cannot confirm this since alias IDs work for me in the chat rooms).
    -”Ignore Anyone Not On Friends List” still causes you to see no text from a chatroom when enabled.
    -No option to toggle between nicknames and Yahoo IDs (Yahoo! Messenger v8.1 and below has this).
    -Missing vital LaunchCAST options in Yahoo! Messenger’s preferences.
    -The WordFilter bug is still not fixed. Yahoo! Messenger only reads the global registry key, instead of the per account WordFilter key.
    -The chat room taskbar icon when minimized doesn’t flash on new message arrival (hasn’t since Yahoo! Messenger v7.0).
    -Crash on startup (nspr4.dll crash).
    -Crashes on shutdown half of the time (for some users).

    Confirmed Annoyances:

    -No option to use a default skin (or change skins to something different).
    -Inability to toggle between nicknames and IDs. Workaround is to edit all your contacts and remove their contact information (also considered an issue).
    -Call history is always displayed when you log in
    -Can’t get rid of the mail alert attached to the messenger window.
    -Can’t force Yahoo! Messenger to only display your display picture only. The old style was best.
    -Inability to turn off the chat room word filter and make it stay off (also considered an issue).
    -New instant message sending bahviour when sending multiple messages. Instead of sending the nickname/ID per line, it groups them under one nickname/ID… example being…
    Michael:
    message1
    message2
    Somebody:
    message1

    Instead of the following (v8.1 and below style)…

    Michael: message1
    Michael: message2
    Somebody: message1

    -LaunchCAST may not work properly when clicking a status button. Other plugins may be broken as well.
    -Can’t get rid of the phone (PC-to-PC bar below your ID) display under your ID and status.
    -The top display picture and buddy list avatars/display pictures are on the right instead of the left (v8.1 and below style).

    Comment by Venom — October 30, 2007 #

  51. Rather than adding useless bells & whistles, why not fix the problems that have been haunting messenger for nearly 5 years? You can only release the same piece of garbage so many times before people start to get pissed that the old ones still exist. I can care less what skin my messenger uses or what song features it holds, I would rather have none of that embedded and the program work proper.

    Comment by Snoopy — October 30, 2007 #

  52. don’t like it im back on 8.1

    Comment by Cisco — October 30, 2007 #

  53. There are too many things that I dislike at Y!M9beta.

    First of all, I can’t see their im addresses in my contact list, only their contact details. Secondly, I was surprised to find out that I can’t change skins, except for those that are in the title bar, shiny and glossy. I would like to see that I can use my default window skin.
    Talinkg about eye-candy, I find those delimitations between groups to be quite anoying. I want a simple clean IM client and at the same time I like Yahoo! Messenger.
    Another thing I just saw is the fact that I see in my IM area, “contact_name:” and the message below that; I strongly dislike this kind of IM-ing.

    What I like is the fact that I can now see more contacts in my IM list, compact view and the emb. videos in IM area.

    Sincerily,
    MAD, longtime Yahoo! User

    Comment by MAD — October 30, 2007 #

  54. I haven’t had one single problem with 9.0 Beta… I happen to find this to be the best version yet.

    Comment by Trap — October 30, 2007 #

  55. It’s just a different UI on the old messenger, barely any of the old bugs fixed - nothing surprising here.

    Comment by Tommy — October 30, 2007 #

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  57. would be nice if it had an option of showing the id of your contact or the nick.

    Comment by syst3m — October 30, 2007 #

  58. Yep, the toggle for nicknames/Yahoo! IDs was removed from this version. I really hope it comes back.

    Make sure you leave feedback asking for it to come back.

    Comment by Venom — October 30, 2007 #

  59. I do like this version, but where is are the games ? Now with the new version i can’t play pool in messenger windows.

    Comment by Gabriel Tanasa — October 30, 2007 #

  60. also adding tabs would make things a lot easier for users.

    Comment by syst3m — October 30, 2007 #

  61. No linebreaks please. Old style was much better.
    Oh… and my webcam doesn’t work anymore (Skype recognises it without problems and I used it in Yahoo Messenger a few days ago without problems).

    Comment by Odyn — October 30, 2007 #

  62. hey guys another way to provide feedback (they might actually be sent to some one who actually reads it not like these blogs)

    http://beta.messenger.yahoo.com/

    bottom right it says provide feedback

    Comment by Alex — October 30, 2007 #

  63. Maximization is not good. It does not apply vertically. This is not good for Windows Vista because maximization of windows makes aero glass effect go off, and this does not look nice if the window is not REALLY and COMPLETELY maximized!

    Comment by hessan — October 30, 2007 #

  64. Can anyone tell me why I cant install Yahoo 9.0 Beta completly (Im using Vista 32 bit) but i have no problems with installing Yahoo 8.1!? I cant install it from yahoo.de and also from yahoo.com

    Comment by Longinus — October 30, 2007 #

  65. Longinus your not missing anything it looks plan and boring i went back to 8.1 i cant stand the 9.0 they need to change it or something and add things back they removed off i can see 9.0 wont go any where if they keep it like this on the 1st beta

    Comment by Cisco — October 30, 2007 #

  66. Another bug: You can’t change the Tip Preferences, because they’re not there.

    Comment by Venom — October 30, 2007 #

  67. there is a little problem in the chat
    in past version when i press the up button the previous msgs will appear allowing me to resend them again, but in the new beta this is gone
    can u plez fix this

    Comment by Bigradi0head — October 30, 2007 #

  68. Heh im still waiting for the design for vista messenger. This one ok but if this some kind of joke of the new GUI for yahoo messenger for vista then this is really dissapointing to me and im sure to many around that have vista. This be ok for anyone using 95 or 98 or 2000 or me or just xp. But for most of us that have Home Premium and Ultimate this is no excemption I like to see the one you guys have on preview come to life. Hopefully on a 9.1 or something.

    Comment by Daniel — October 30, 2007 #

  69. Sarah does the new messenger 9.0 fix that room booter exploit thats hitting the rooms i am tired of being booted out the rooms with that nasty exploit,i think i am better off by going back to paltalk, i hope its patch soon

    Comment by markj — October 30, 2007 #

  70. I going back 8.1. I really don’t like 9!

    Comment by Binary — October 30, 2007 #

  71. and also hate hiding both display pictures.

    Comment by Binary — October 30, 2007 #

  72. ok why won’t this install on vista any answers out there

    Comment by markiss666 — October 30, 2007 #

  73. i love it and it works find more me and 9.0 works this a o ok with me

    Comment by david — October 30, 2007 #

  74. i am geting this can this be fix is this a bug or some in thanks

    here is what needs to be fixs

    there was an error in the severe while trying to add a contact Please try again

    and i am get that evere time i try to add a contact that shows up i think it is a bug can it be fixs thank you

    Comment by david — October 30, 2007 #

  75. Some changes need to be done when It goes to beta 2. I agree with the others.
    and one thing I don’t like is the message thing
    User Name:
    Message
    User Name:
    Message

    Comment by Kai — October 30, 2007 #

  76. Messenger* sorry typo XD

    Comment by Kai — October 30, 2007 #

  77. Is it just me or does the “user” is typing no longer work as well…most of the time my friend is typing but it doesn’t say it and then BAM a message on the screen i wasn’t expecting….

    Comment by Jack Pinoski — October 30, 2007 #

  78. Jack.. its just you.. i have been using the beta version for bout 24 hours now (havent even restarted my computer nor logged off yahoo) and it works just fine for me.. it hasnt crashed it hasnt logged me off havent gotten any errors my cam works just fine picture sharing adn everything has been just perfect.. im happy with this release.. but as soon as messenger for vista comes out im switching lol

    Comment by Alex — October 30, 2007 #

  79. Dear Yahoo team….

    Thank you so much for this new Yahoo Messenger its very slick as u said its not perfect yet but i should say its a fine release….

    Thank u for addressing the profile exploit issue i know ur annoyed by my post but as i said I’m desperate during that time…

    U patch sticky ID u patch profile exploit…i hope someday no more 3rd party client can logged in yahoo chat and we all be using Yahoo Messenger….thank u so much…

    Regards to u all

    Comment by Ym User — October 31, 2007 #

  80. =====================================

    ATTENTION YAHOO INC!

    ————————-FEEDBACK——————————-

    1) When ignoring someone who is not in your friends list , you cannot see the text in the room at all.

    2) When exiting Yahoo Messenger , I still see it running in my task manager under processes.

    3) Adding the Video player in PM, can also be misused for Booting (which I dont think is a good idea).

    4) What happened to “Change Skin”?

    5) I cannot use my alias (sub profile) in the room, but only MAIN ACCOUNT!

    6) Nicknames/Default ID , I cant see this either .

    7) I cannot seem to disable the Call History nor the Mail alert.

    8) Messages in PM is not exactly the same as the previous versions of Yahoo Messenger! Like normally the message is next to our names!

    9) I normally use in chat my Spaced names or with a “+” on it. They log in but they dont join the rooms! I dont want to create new accounts. Basically this is like a cheat for Yahoo Inc to increase Users! Also I created them with mixed Capital letters which aint showing in the chat rooms, but instead they are all small letters, why?

    10) And I still get booted , which sometimes causes my PC to crash! (someone sending me too many Videos in PM all playing at the same time!)

    ————————–OVERALL———————————

    THIS BETA VERSION IS RELEASED FAR TOO EARLY AND NOT OBSERVED PROPERLY.

    =====================================

    Comment by Dave (Yahoo Chat Fanatic) — October 31, 2007 #

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  82. I cannot login even when I use different kind of connection preferences.

    Details:

    2007/10/31 16:20:47.016[THRD:2100] [com.ymsg.service:v1nc3nt_m] Error - Received 407 Proxy authentication required for URL http://httpvcsm.msg.yahoo.com/capacity, proxy authentication info unavailable, reporting failure
    2007/10/31 16:20:47.079[THRD:2100] [com.ymsg.service:v1nc3nt_m] Error - Failed to select colo, error given: “FND.0205″

    Comment by vince — October 31, 2007 #

  83. For anyone who thinks messenger9.0 Beta sucks.. Please remember its BETA its just what it is>test version. So you should give comments about how it works, How it looks and any problems ETC.I thinks people should be leaving help comments so the yahoo messenger team can get this as right as possable. Not comments like> it sucks etc. Thank you thats all i have to say.

    Comment by ccWulf — October 31, 2007 #

  84. hehe! i see romanian is the second language after english on this blog well, y!mess is the only im client used in romania so i’m not wondering why…
    i like the new version, but i wish i would be able to use the os look, it’s much more natural then these skins… and the voice quality is still low…
    and what about the linux version? it’s ages old and opensource clients don’t support voice or webcam… i wish y!mess would be more like skype…

    Comment by alumni — October 31, 2007 #

  85. It keeps getting interrupted during install.
    Is there a full-installer link for offline install ?

    Comment by Anjanesh — October 31, 2007 #

  86. Full installer: http://download.yahoo.com/dl/msgr9/us/ymsgr900_797_us.exe

    Now, the boot exploits in the chat rooms can only be fixed server side. People keep putting different packets in their location field of their profiles, causing people to get kicked, names spoofed, etc.

    Other issues have been posted here, keep up the good work guys.

    One suggestion I’d like to make to the Yahoo! Messenger team is to limit the amount of videos and multimedia is displayed in IM windows, because it’d leave an open door for malicious users flooding other users.

    Comment by Venom — October 31, 2007 #

  87. Here’s my current bug/issues and annoyances/things that could be changed list…

    -Can’t use alias IDs in chat room (I cannot confirm this since alias IDs work for me in the chat rooms).
    -”Ignore Anyone Not On Friends List” still causes you to see no text from a chat room when enabled.
    -No option/preferences to turn off or on Tips in the IM windows. An option used to be under Preferences > General.
    -No option to toggle between nicknames and Yahoo IDs (Yahoo! Messenger v8.1 and below has this).
    -Missing vital LaunchCAST options in Yahoo! Messenger’s preferences.
    -The WordFilter bug is still not fixed. Yahoo! Messenger only reads the global registry key, instead of the per account WordFilter key.
    -The chat room taskbar icon when minimized doesn’t flash on new message arrival (hasn’t since Yahoo! Messenger v7.0).
    -Crash on startup (nspr4.dll crash) for some users.
    -Crashes on shutdown half of the time (for some users).
    -Yahoo! Messenger and the servers itself are still exploitable.

    Confirmed Annoyances/Things That Could Be Changed:

    -No option to use or change skins (to something different).
    -Inability to toggle between nicknames and IDs. Workaround is to edit all your contacts and remove their contact information (also considered an issue).
    -The games button is nowhere to be found in the IM window.
    -Call history is always displayed when you log in
    -Can’t get rid of the mail alert attached to the messenger window.
    -Can’t force Yahoo! Messenger to only display your display picture only. The old style was best.
    -Inability to turn off the chat room word filter and make it stay off (also considered an issue). Workaround is either to change the global WordFilter key, or delete/rename the filter1.enc file in the Y!M install directory.
    -The video player in IM windows has the potential to be misused by malicious users.
    -New instant message sending behavior when sending multiple messages. Instead of sending the nickname/ID per line, it groups them under one nickname/ID… example being…

    Michael:
    message1
    message2
    Somebody:
    message1

    Instead of the following (v8.1 and below style)…

    Michael: message1
    Michael: message2
    Somebody: message1

    -LaunchCAST may not work properly when clicking a station button, and navigating the All Stations button isn’t easy (it’s hard to highlight menu items). Other plugins may be broken as well.
    -Can’t get rid of the phone status (PC-to-PC bar below your ID) display under your ID and status.
    -The top display picture and buddy list avatars/display pictures are on the right instead of the left (v8.1 and below style).

    Comment by Venom — October 31, 2007 #

  88. Stil dosen’t have search in archive. I belive that will be verry usefull!

    Comment by shangel — October 31, 2007 #

  89. I doesn’t really like the new look and feel. I like the old gui theme better.

    Comment by Rizqi Ahmad — October 31, 2007 #

  90. I cant install it, vista tells me the program has not installed properly, but its on my desktop and i get the sign dialog box, then when i click sign in vista tells me the program has stopped working and it needs to close…. any ideas?

    Comment by xenon — October 31, 2007 #

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  92. hy, i have a problem, i use windows xp SP2 and after i install the YM 9 it says cannot load resource dll, what can i do?

    Comment by Cosmin — October 31, 2007 #

  93. Works great.

    Comment by allanmn — October 31, 2007 #

  94. Good job on patching the location exploit

    Comment by Dermot — October 31, 2007 #

  95. Hi Sarah,

    I have two questions, please do answer them when you read!

    1) When can we expect the release for Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista. I mean its taking so long and we are awaiting for it!!!

    2) What happened to web.im (Web Yahoo! Messenger), its not re-directing the right destination rather leaving is in wrong page. But webmessenger.yahoo.com does work. Kindly look into this.

    Cheers,
    Vinay

    Comment by Vinay — October 31, 2007 #

  96. Hi Vinay,

    Vista is coming soon. Stay tuned to the blog. That’s as specific as I can get!

    And thanks for the tip on web.im - looks like in a recent push the redirect was broken. Working on it now!

    Sarah Bacon

    Comment by Administrator — October 31, 2007 #

  97. I like the look of it from here though. The new messenger BETA. Yea.. keep it up.

    Comment by jaunty_mellifluous — October 31, 2007 #

  98. Another bug in chats, Chat Error pops up sometimes when sending a message.

    Comment by Venom — October 31, 2007 #

  99. ACK!!!! now when you are in an IM it gives a line feed after your name, and then the line. You guys must all have 22″ screens.
    Newsflash!!! most people don’t.

    Comment by Saskia — October 31, 2007 #

  100. Oh, and could we PLEASE have a “CHAT” button back to access the rooms, please? like in version 6.9? I loved that version. Pity it doesn’t work with captcha.
    You need 6 clicks to select your room of choice, and then the captcha.

    Comment by Saskia — October 31, 2007 #

  101. GADS. This is another version where you can’t repost with the up arrow… And that on another “Chat error” night where you need to repost 30% of your lines? That means copying and pasting by hand again. Make up your MIND people. That feature is in… out…. in… out… Why don’t yuo just fix the “you cannot ignore yourself” problem with spammers? well maybe you have.
    And you still have the problem with the HUGE scrabble ad that takes up half of the screen with white space.
    Do I sound cranky? Yes! I am!
    I have windows vista! Want me to find another platform or what??

    Comment by Saskia — October 31, 2007 #

  102. My suggestion is to add a Message Style feature that will either group all multiple messages (current style) or per line style (v8.1 and below). Basically if you use Show Timestamps it’ll go back to what we know of as the normal style, but it doesn’t save that way.

    My other suggestion is to implement an integrated captcha feature like the Mac Messenger has. Not everyone can be bothered to open their browser, you know?

    Comment by Venom — October 31, 2007 #

  103. Oh, and it still has major problems with not opening IM windows under Vista. Please stop fidgeting with phone features that are only available in the US and divert some resources to the Vista messenger team?

    You know, I would PAY for a working version under the following conditions:
    - that it actually WORKS
    - that people still can have a working version without paying, because otherwise you get a chat crowd of people that want to pay for chat. not good. I want to pay for a premium interface, not for the feature of meeting people
    - that it has features that I actually would use. Which is not 500 different audibles, millions of skins, phone and SMS services in the US, where I am not, etc etc
    - @ previous, for instance, the option to use wildcard ignore (which all the alternative interfaces have), the option to be in multiple rooms at once, the option not to be confronted with ads the size of half your window, the option to not let yahoo determine for me which words should be stars, the option to hop to my room of choice WITH THE RIGHT NUMBER in just a mouseclick, etc etc.

    Jolly good, keep up the good work, I am switching back to the previous version.

    Comment by Saskia — October 31, 2007 #

  104. New observation: I am REALLY unhappy that I have to throughout multiple steps to listen to my voicemail. Anybody else share that opinion? It’s absolutely unnecessary. I like the fact that you can save them, but going to your email and then, click inbox, click on the message, download attachment, scan for viruses, click open and finally listen to it OR just click the little voice mail envelope and listen… Hm, I am wondering which is better?

    Comment by Milan J. — October 31, 2007 #

  105. this version looks great, but i want to test drive Yahoo Messenger for Vista! Good work

    Comment by razor_303 — October 31, 2007 #

  106. I get some problems when i try to install. If i run under safe mode i can open but when i change to normal appears i message refer to memory 00000 an closed it whitout log in.

    Comment by Jhon — October 31, 2007 #

  107. I use Windows XP SP2 and I am also having an issue installing the 9.0 BETA.

    Comment by Joe — October 31, 2007 #

  108. I’d like to add a plea for a new Linux version that will support at least voice & video, if not all those other new nifty features …

    Comment by Radu — October 31, 2007 #

  109. Please fix these errors on 9.0: a) you forgot to include recent calls made! I could easily find the list of recent calls made on 8.1 and need that; b) let me choose a default country and country code– I dont want to keep typing in +1 for the USA every time. c) call quality. Call quality to the USA is good, but it is often terrible to other places, though when I use skype immediately after this the skype call quality is always good. d) request feedback on call quality, so you know what countries have problems, like skype.

    Comment by Jeff — October 31, 2007 #

  110. I have tried donwloading this in Vitsa. But it keeps on being so reluctant with my vista. so, i would say i have to wait even for this beta version

    Comment by Haroon — October 31, 2007 #

  111. I tried to install Yahoo Messenger 9.0 Beta three times but couldn’t install on my Windows XP SP2, fully updated Laptop(as on Oct-31, ‘07).

    After installing 99% it gives an error: “The instruction at “0×009b2744″ referenced memory at “0×00000000″. The memory could not “read”. Click on OK to termninate the program. After that installation get finished.

    But afterwards when I try to sign in, it crashes every time. Crash error signature is: appname: yahoom~1.exe; offset: 00004944 and tons of other things there on the report.

    Comment by Jack — October 31, 2007 #

  112. I can’t shared my video on IM>.. can u help me plzzz..

    Comment by hoang hai — October 31, 2007 #

  113. Y! Messenger v9 it’s a step forward, no doubt about it, but the function of listing only the ids in your list, and not the names, is missing.

    I hope in the final version, you’ll put it back.

    Comment by raikks — November 1, 2007 #

  114. I couldn’t find the Yahoo 360 button on this version! That’s very inconvenient… And sometimes there are sign in problems !

    Comment by Vinx — November 1, 2007 #

  115. It’s still a beta version, so this kind of issues are — let’s say — normal.
    I’ve noticed too that there are some negative changes — unfortunately — like deleting some important features, although it has a fine new look and some other nice improvements.

    Comment by raikks — November 1, 2007 #

  116. Add games, and make the chat windows to bind like at Yahoo Ms. for Vista. Thanx & add more themes. Thanx

    Comment by bogdan — November 1, 2007 #

  117. Great, another new messenger and a whole new set of problems? I continually get CTF loader errors and of course now I can’t even get into chat. Good going. There’s also no feature to change from showing the user names ID instead of their REAL name. I swear Yahoo really doesn’t want people to chat anymore.

    Comment by jet766bf — November 1, 2007 #

  118. I would like to hear something from someone of the Yahoo Messanger Team why some ppl have those troubles with installing (including me) and Im also wondering that you bring out not a Yahoo for Vista Beta before this Yahoo 9.0 its a …. I think.

    Comment by Longinus — November 1, 2007 #

  119. allow the contact list to be tile viewed like trillian astra! and get rid of that big gap onthe messenger buddy list.

    Comment by vb_packets — November 1, 2007 #

  120. i like the new v9beta but there’s a problem: if i run the messenger minimized to tray… and if i play a game (for example) in 2 or 3 minutes my game will minimize. it’s like i`m pressing alt+tab. that stopes if I close the messenger. this bug must be fixed!

    Comment by PH3N0M3N — November 1, 2007 #

  121. I’m very annoyed with the linebreak after the nicknames in the chat window, as It makes conversations take up more space. And it looks too much like live messenger.

    I suggest that you remove the linebreak, but don’t show the name again if the same person types two messages in a row. If you know what I mean? Like this:

    daniel: this is a message
    this is another message
    this is a third message
    Jack: this is another person’s message

    It’s important of course that the messages start on the same “horisontal level”.
    This way we’ll save space and won’t clutter up the window with nicknames/IDs (which I assume is your reasoning behind changing the way it was.

    thanks!

    Comment by daniel — November 1, 2007 #

  122. Last night I downloaded this Beta messenger. But I CAN NOT SIGN IN ..
    This messege appears ” System is busy , Try a bit later ”
    What’s the problem with that?
    and download process is buggy and it stops by its own ..
    PLease help me! I have lost my previous 8.1 ..

    Comment by Placebo — November 1, 2007 #

  123. hey daniel.. try hitting f2.. itll do the trick

    Comment by Alex — November 1, 2007 #

  124. BUG!
    Double clicking or pressing enter on a buddy in the buddy list wont restore or give focus to the chat window if it is already opened.

    Comment by Cristi — November 1, 2007 #

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  126. where is the yahoo games in this version????I WANT TO PLAY GAMES WITH MY FRIENDS AND I CANT FIND THE OPTION!!! HELPPPPPP THEY TRY INVITING ME AND IT DOESN’T WORK!

    Comment by Justin — November 1, 2007 #

  127. The games ability was removed from the 9.0 version.

    Comment by madalin — November 1, 2007 #

  128. UN*X version still stuck at 1.x and now a new Windows version has arrived yet again? They have almost full functionality at 6.x, why can’t you update the client for us Linux users?

    BTW, enhanced buddy list isn’t so new. I’m used to seeing that already in Gaim/Pidgin. I’d happily switch to an official client if only you guys update the age old UN*X version.

    Comment by Aja Lapus — November 1, 2007 #

  129. Hi,

    This is not related to the new beta release although I love it. My complaint is about this regular spam I am getting on yahoo messenger by someone named “kandy0004888@myfreecamhost.com”. They send a message like: ” 19/f/ca here live on webcam - to see it just goto my personal page here http://www.freecamerahost.com/Kandy” and I am reporting it daily to spam on yahoo messenger but this person keeps popping up. When I report this person as spam on pidgin, I get a popup saying that “kandy0004888@myfreecamhost.com is not a valid yahoo id”.

    Comment by rite — November 1, 2007 #

  130. WHY CAN’T I SIGN IN TO THIS MESSANGER. I FACE THIS ERROR MESSGE SAYING : SORRY SYSTEM IS BUSY , TRY A BIT LATER. FOR GOD’S SAKE TELL ME WHY?

    Comment by Placebo — November 1, 2007 #

  131. Hy .I have found a bug on yahoo-The Emoticon “:”>” won’t work if you type it.But if u choose it from the emoticon bar works why? plz fix it

    Comment by kNx — November 1, 2007 #

  132. 1) Ugly user interface.

    2) Crashed 3 times

    3) Can’t maximize the Yahoo! messenger window

    Going back to the 8.1 within 3 minutes of downloading it. If a person like me goes back to an older version that means that the new version seriously lacks the punch.

    Comment by userrocks — November 1, 2007 #

  133. We can`t play games in this version???it`s pretty cool but without games i will pass to the 8.1 version…I am waiting for an answer on my email if it`s possible…:(

    Comment by freyutz — November 1, 2007 #

  134. The look of your new Messenger version 9.0 is obviously borrowing from that of Windows Live Messenger. While this is fine by me it isn’t “original” at all. Besides being buggy (I understand it’s still a Beta but still)… here are my real complaints:

    - Inability to change the buddy list display from nicks (or real names) to Yahoo! IDs like you could in 8.1.

    - No tabbed PM window support without a registry hack (I figured you would’ve done this officially already!)

    - No built-in (integrated) captcha support. As Venom said you have this in your Mac version (with it’s own separate window) so why not have this in the Windows version too? This is my BIGGEST complaint.

    Comment by Adam [Torseq Technologies] — November 1, 2007 #

  135. I find the new status icons quite unreadable: I can’t tell if a person is online or idle at the first glimps (both icons are nothing else but a yellow circle)

    Comment by Odyn — November 1, 2007 #

  136. It doesn’t support proxy authentication just like vince said
    plz fix this

    thx

    Comment by basibanget — November 2, 2007 #

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  138. I have few ideas/complaints and you may use them to complete Yahoo! 9 before official release. As I understand this is beta release, some functionalities in 8.1 weren’t available in Yahoo! 9 beta for the time being (hopefully). But I hope Yahoo! developer can consider these.

    1. Messenger option to let user to switch their messenger’s skin to old look, as new themes are really CPU consuming. Nevertheless, I still prefer the old look though

    2. Tabbed window chatting like Pidgin. I heard you working for this for a long time, why don’t deliver it in Yahoo 9 beta?

    3. Ability to enable/disable line break of conversation, instead of many messages per ID to old legacy style, one line per ID. Some users will find this very annoying.

    4. Crashes on shutdown (some users)

    5. Yahoo! 9 beta looks like Windows Live Messenger now

    6. Boot exploits from chatroom need to be fixed ASAP.

    7. User protection from being flooded with multimedia links (eg: images/flash video) by malicious users.

    8. Call history is always displayed when you log in, it’s annoying. Please let users to switch whether to enable or disable it.

    9. Please please please please port this version of Yahoo! 9 to UNIX/LINUX OS! I believe million people will agree with this.

    Thanks, the others may add the other idea.

    Comment by cry4freedom — November 2, 2007 #

  139. Any idea why crashed when i try to install it. This is t he message i get: “The instruction at “0×009b2744″ referenced memory at “0×00000000″

    Comment by jhon — November 2, 2007 #

  140. It still not work fine with Khmer Unicode. Please see it here http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/10/24/1538496/Y9withKhmer.JPG. More about Khmer Unicode you can visit at http://khmeros.info or contact me with the email above. Hope you can fix this problem.

    Thanks in advance.
    Boeun

    Comment by timboeun — November 2, 2007 #

  141. make an built in booter protection.

    Comment by Josh — November 2, 2007 #

  142. I just wrote a blog relating to Yahoo messenger 9 install and off line installation option.

    Comment by Harsha — November 2, 2007 #

  143. I’ve been running the 8.x version on Vista, and it works most of the time, but dies periodically with a Vista message, “the application has stopped working”.

    I just installed the version 9 beta, and it starts up, but dies in a few seconds with the same message.

    I have to de-install it and revert to 8.

    Comment by Bill Heiser — November 2, 2007 #

  144. “Voice Chat Could Not Be Started”

    I can’t use voice in conf on YM9 (on VistaBasic) - tho no problem with “Call” voice, and no probs at all in earlier YMs.
    More detail here: http://www.wackyb.com/zzub/index.php?showtopic=11940&hl=

    Comment by Eagle_Kiwi — November 3, 2007 #

  145. Besides all the known problems it seems to take a while(10 minutes) to load other people’s avatars. I don’t understand why so long, since i have a great internet connection

    Comment by Vlad — November 3, 2007 #

  146. perfect programming. i have install this program and very cute.

    Comment by ankara oto kiralama — November 3, 2007 #

  147. There r no games in the messenger and if the persons on both sides is using the 9.0 beta the messages are taking a bit of time to reach the other person which is a bit annoying. Also the colour of the base (light grey) isn’t so attractive as that of YM 8.1. According to my use of emoticons, i think we can add the other emoticons such as the ones present in http://messenger.yahoo.com/emoticons.php . Well i know it might be a it crappy if we put all the emoticons on the messnger window but i think we can provide the usual “>” (show more) buttons to hide the extra ones. I have another view that instead showing the graphics to only top of the messnger window we can also put the graphics all over. I m using my messenger on windows vista.Though the messenger has good interface it need a lot of work to be done before the final release. Thank You (OZ) my id is “neonozrule”

    Comment by Oz — November 3, 2007 #

  148. Hi id just like to say the new messenger is very nice but im haveing some probs first if i tru to login under the connection setting firewall with no proxies i can login but i cant join any chat room it always times out and the same goes if i try any type of proxy http socks 4 5 they all let me login but wont join any chat room , but other than that i like the look of the new messenger than the way you can send streaming media ,
    o yes and also i keep getting chat error when trying to post in rooms
    thanks & goodby
    b.mr38

    Comment by b.mr38 — November 3, 2007 #

  149. can anyone create a plug-in for playing pool in the chat window???

    Comment by pachanga — November 3, 2007 #

  150. CRASH!
    Incompatible with Outpost Firewall 6.0 in “Block Most” mode.

    Error occurs:
    CLayoutHostWnd-Tooltip: YahooMessenger.exe - Application Error
    The instruction at “0×009c4944″ referenced memory at “0×00000004″.
    The memory could not be “read” Click OK to terminate program

    Second, I found all features are still far away behind Windows Live Messenger 8.5 indeed.

    How to rollback to last previous (8.1) ?
    How to rollback to last previous (8.1) ?

    Thanks

    Comment by Inoel — November 3, 2007 #

  151. In the IM window, I can’t find icons for webcam and conference.

    Comment by Bess — November 3, 2007 #

  152. hi i have some problem with this version this version have a big problem that problem is this version don’t get im from another people have later version of this ! when i use this i can’t get any im from my friend’s and when i signout and signin i get their im in offline !!! i don’t know why but is real and the another problem is this version don’t have any button to going 360 page and another problem is big plugin interface on yahoo messenger window and another thing this version don’t have is the username list in yahoo messenger i just can see my friend’s in their nick name or first name and last name i want to see their id ( username ) so make it better this problem’s suck’s really and the rock on emotion is not good is so back for rock on plz change it !

    Comment by mojtaba golestani — November 3, 2007 #

  153. wow i forget another big problem when i send insant message to all ( a group or all of my add list ) yahoo messenger signout automaticaly ! this is another bug ….

    Comment by mojtaba golestani — November 3, 2007 #

  154. webcam invites don’t work for me in chatrooms ( from me to others ) - had to go back to 8.1

    Comment by Leigh — November 3, 2007 #

  155. hey hi.. i am using windows vista ultimate i downloaded yahoo messenger 9.0 beta but its not working……. error is yahoo messenger stoped working……. does it supports windows vista ?????????

    Comment by Karthik — November 4, 2007 #

  156. @Karthik No I dont think so because I cant install it either.. I really would like to read a Statement from the Yahoo Team, Im really ….

    Comment by Longinus — November 4, 2007 #

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  158. Hi all Your not the only one out there. I too am having trouble with YM9 it will not install on my laptop nor my pc. After installing 99% it gives an error: “The instruction at “0×009b2744″ referenced memory at “0×00000000″. The memory could not “read”. Click on OK to termninate the program. After that installation gets finished. When you try to then run the programm it then crashes. I am using Windows XP SP2 als o It will not uninnstall properly leaving causing my pc or laptop to run slow. To get rid of this confliction you have to do a system restore. So untill the bugs are fixed I’ll stay with 8.

    Comment by thgun2 — November 4, 2007 #

  159. i want download more skin of yahoo messenger 9?

    Comment by dungnm1985 — November 4, 2007 #

  160. I have a new exicitng theme for Yahoo Messenger 9 !

    Comment by Adriann — November 5, 2007 #

  161. why can’t you still not share files with msn messenger users!!!!!!!!!! ever since this interpolairity came out between yahoo and msn the only thing you can do is chat!!!!

    another thing is when chatting with users the taskbar window for yahoo turns on when you recieve a msg even if you have the taskbar set to auto hide, how about letting it stay HIDDEN!!!!

    Comment by andre — November 5, 2007 #

  162. This version sucks i rolled back no whey to display my friends chat names have to stare at there stupid real name. and why the hell can’t i display my name as my chat name anymore i have to be forced to use my real name that sucks yahoo fix it please.

    Comment by Tony — November 5, 2007 #

  163. Need Help!!!

    I just downloaded the full version of yahoo messenger v9 beta but couldn’t install it on my XP.

    here’s the error msg:

    Incorrect command line parameters:

    Windows Installer V. 2.00.2600.0
    Copyright 2000 Microsoft Corporation All Rights Reserved
    Portions of this software are based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG group.

    How can i fix this problem and install messerger correctly.

    Hoping for your kind assistance. Thank you so much.

    Comment by wency — November 5, 2007 #

  164. Geesh why dont you wait till you get 8.1 working right before you bring out 9.0

    Whats up with the chat error messages now ?

    And I tried the 9.0 and couldn’t get sound in the rooms or see anyone ??

    Is it a invisible chat version now ??

    Comment by Julianna — November 5, 2007 #

  165. Yahoo messengre Vista is a load of crap
    the same features are available in XP once you install DotNetFX 3.0

    anyway, this 9.0 beta is gay.
    the new skins suck, i prefer to use the skinning system of 8.1 and previous

    also, the maximise button doesn’t maximise horizontally, only vertically,
    dragging YM windows is slow, like its repainting the screen
    the little contactcard thing is shown off screen when maximised.

    go back to 8.1’s design, its the one that actually worked,… now your just getting stupid with it.

    Comment by Danial — November 5, 2007 #

  166. Please add back the feature where you can toggle between yahoo ids and the nicknames. I much prefer the yahoo id display as to the nicknames.

    Comment by Venky — November 6, 2007 #

  167. hey this version is good..avatars have a better quality..
    but i see now is using more resources..
    maybe at final version, will be another sounds and more dynamic!

    Comment by alyn_nr_1 — November 6, 2007 #

  168. why in god’s name did you have to do a 9.0 version? couldn’t it have been 8.2 ?! that is a stupid thing to do. in 5 years from now we’ll have Yahoo Messenger 15 :-|. what are you guys doing there? i can see only one good thing, the visualisation of videos and pics, but that feature uses a lot of resources and it can’t be deactivated.

    Comment by gurru — November 6, 2007 #

  169. I have the latest Flash beta version from Adobe Labs installed… but when I install Messenger on my XP machine, it says I need to install Flash 6 or else it won’t show me avatars etc. Huh?

    Comment by Al — November 6, 2007 #

  170. Hi Al - What is the version number on that Flash beta from Adobe Labs? If it’s not a production/publicly available release of Flash, Messenger may not be detecting that you have the “latest” production build.

    Sarah Bacon

    Comment by Administrator — November 6, 2007 #

  171. Here we make comments bout the messenger and all Sarah comments on is the Flash player from someones posts now go figure people ???

    Comment by Julianna — November 6, 2007 #

  172. I downloaded Yahoo messenger 9 but when i try to use it keeps saying Yahoo Messenger stopped working, checking for solution, then a debug and cancel shows up, thats it, Some one plz help me fix this

    Comment by Mark — November 6, 2007 #

  173. OH MY GOD…this is so ugly…yahoo please save us. I download this yesterday now I want to get beck my YM 8.1.

    The skin is shocking. in YM. Can be have a basic nice looking skin like G Talk? There is no conference icon. and you guys keep the annoying add. Yahoo already earning enough advertises revenue in main site. Please don’t put add in yahoo messenger.

    I have seen add for YM vista. That looks much better plz I request we are waiting for so long now. We are expecting YM vista will replace this YM 9 soon.

    Thanks

    Comment by Syed Irteja Ali — November 6, 2007 #

  174. I’m glad and disappointed: i cannot run it at my home. It just crashes, first with an “address violation” and then after trying to log in it gives me 2 “send to microsoft, don’t send” messages, after it just closes.
    but at work, works seamlessly. no bug so far. i like being a lab rat!
    Thanks

    Comment by Alex — November 6, 2007 #

  175. when will release the final version of yahoo messenger 9.0?this beta is incomplete..and to others user wich have yahoo messenger 8.1 shows i have a old version..this is no right!!!!

    Comment by alyn_nr_1 — November 7, 2007 #

  176. Hello Sarah,

    Where’s the GAMES button? Yahoo! gonna stop supporting Games from Messenger?? Please don’t! People like it..

    - Niri.

    Comment by Niri — November 7, 2007 #

  177. I have Windows Vista Home Premium. I was successfully able to install the beta (as far as I can tell, anyways), but when I try to open the program, nothing happens. I open up the task manager, and it shows it is running under the Processes tab, but I wait and wait and… nothing happens. Any idea what’s going on and how I can fix it?

    Comment by Vinnie Vineyard — November 7, 2007 #

  178. what is this! when i log in to my YM it will be lost or cant log in.

    whats happening to my YM!!!!!!!!
    make action ASAP! other already using skype

    Comment by jonathan! — November 7, 2007 #

  179. Closing comments here in favor of the newer post on Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta:

    http://blog.messenger.yahoo.com/blog/2007/11/07/update-for-yahoo-messenger-90-beta/

    Thanks,

    Sarah Bacon

    Comment by Administrator — November 7, 2007 #

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