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Update to Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 Beta

September 3, 2009 on 11:30 am | In Mac version | 108 Comments

An updated version of Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 is now available.

This latest version includes a couple of new features and many bug fixes to help enhance overall stability and performance. Other changes were made to ensure compatibility with Apple’s latest version of OS X, Snow Leopard.

For the first time, Insider is now available in Yahoo! Messenger for Mac. The new version of Insider offers quick access to the latest news, including local news for U.S. locations. You can also check the weather, see what awaits you in your Yahoo! Mail inbox, or easily search the web, images or video.

This latest version also includes a “Report a Problem” feature to make it easier for Mac users to report technical issues they’re experiencing. To access it, click on the Help menu and select “Report a Problem to Yahoo!”.

From there you can select the feature area that relates to your issue (sign in, messaging, webcam etc.), and then describe the problem you’re having. We really appreciate it when you submit your problems this way as the diagnostic information that’s included helps us better troubleshoot the issue.

Download Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 Beta

As always, we appreciate your feedback which you can submit by going to the Help menu in the Mac version and selecting “Send Feedback”.

We hope you enjoy this latest version!

Sarah Bacon
Product Manager


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  1. Since I installed the new one, messenger will no longer work. Tried to re downloading, and still, it just starts to log in, and spins and spins.

    Comment by Brian — September 3, 2009 #

  2. I would hope growl was pulled (or updated to 1.2b1 sent to mailing list) to amke sure the old growl isn’t leaking memory and causing issues with messenger since the current release is a mess on leopard.

    Comment by MysticalOS — September 3, 2009 #

  3. there is no update when i checked on my YM 3.0b4

    Comment by koko — September 3, 2009 #

  4. The Mac version of YM look so much better than the Windows version. It doesn’t have that crappy skin which stands out from the native OS UI. It’s not polluted with buttons and icons, just the main necessary ones. I’m so jealous.

    Comment by Wah — September 3, 2009 #

  5. http://growl.info/beta.html

    The growl beta that actually supports 10.6 (not out of date framework still embedded in YM)

    Comment by MysticalOS — September 3, 2009 #

  6. Yea mobile messenger for the iPhone still does not work for me, every time i try to log in it says, “Unable to login for an unknown reason, please try again.”

    Comment by Foodmanchew — September 4, 2009 #

  7. And to justify my post not being out of context, I am writing it here to indicate Yahoo really needs to plan and start developing a cross plateform Yahoo Messenger instead of maintaining a seperate Mac version which has been lagging in features and updates for obvious overhead it creates to maintain two versions for two OS. With Netbooks and Linux based phones (Nokia’s Maemo OS and Google’s Android OS) you are going to have to maintain yet another voice call and video call capable messenger version.

    Comment by Saurabh — September 4, 2009 #

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  10. unfortunately I discovered some problems with webcam, video chat is too slow sometimes, could you fix it?

    Comment by davidello — September 7, 2009 #

  11. besides, I cannot see mu contact’s avatar (they use msn)

    Comment by davidello — September 7, 2009 #

  12. it seems to be working very good

    Comment by byeloo scan — September 7, 2009 #

  13. This has been a long time since I used yahoo msg. Because I am using Ubuntu. Is there any plan for releasing a version for Ubuntu?

    Comment by Maq — September 7, 2009 #

  14. Nice update, however, I wish the rest of Yahoo’s apps were as integrated w/ the Mac as this one.

    Comment by John — September 7, 2009 #

  15. @Maq – At this time there are no plans to release an Ubuntu version.

    Sarah Bacon

    Comment by Administrator — September 7, 2009 #

  16. I already sent a problem report about this: I’m on Leopard (10.5.8) and after updating to this version I can no longer see the contact list. Messenger logs me in but hangs at the loading spinner and then the application locks up and I have to force quit it. (And yes, I “uninstalled” Yahoo Messenger using AppZapper and then reinstalling it – no result.)

    Thanks to Time Machine I was able to revert to the previous version, otherwise it would have been Adium for me (aka no audio chat and no file transfer support.)

    About Saurabh’s comment about keeping a cross-platform version: all I really miss from the Windows version is the Photo Sharing thing. I really don’t want that dreadful interface or the *shivers* banner at the bottom of the contact list. People coming from Windows who see the Mac version of Y!M go “Wow! This is Yahoo Messenger?! It looks SOO nice! What theme are you using?”

    Comment by Andrei — September 8, 2009 #

  17. I downloaded the latest version but Yahoo! Insider won’t work for me. It doesn’t load when I sign in and I can’t find it anywhere.

    Comment by Ashley — September 8, 2009 #

  18. It still doesnt have all of the features of the microsoft edition, such as photo share, after being a beta for years.

    Comment by Justin — September 8, 2009 #

  19. why is it only “3.0 beta”? mine is 3.0 beta 4,, so is it beta 5??

    besides, if this is an upgrade, why i cant find it with “Help > Check for Updates…” ????

    Comment by koko — September 9, 2009 #

  20. I just updated my Yahoo! Messenger to and it also just spins and spins forever and never logs on.
    Ugh, it’s frustrating!
    Please fix this as soon as possible!

    Comment by Luis — September 10, 2009 #

  21. i installed the new messenger update today & now it just hangs on the spinner during log in.

    i’m on mac leopard 10.5.8

    sucks!

    Comment by Dbo — September 10, 2009 #

  22. I know you’ll just delete my comment Sarah.. but I’ll post anyway. I’m glad you at least are still putting out maintenance releases for us Mac users. But Insider.. as a new feature? Come on. It’s a way to plug yahoo content, but it’s more like popup than a new feature. How about photo sharing? Or games? Something we’d actually want.

    THAT would be awesome.

    Comment by patrick — September 11, 2009 #

  23. Maybe it’s me but, I don’t really care for the Yahoo Insider thing. That could had been left out IMO.

    Comment by Outsanity — September 11, 2009 #

  24. I could care less about Insider … when will the MAC version have photo sharing!!!!!!!!! This is ridiculous!

    Comment by Tony — September 11, 2009 #

  25. tnx for update
    but i cant sent IM to group of friends. it is very good fetcher in windows version .

    Comment by azad — September 11, 2009 #

  26. well,, i just saw the update yesterday,, weird,,

    but,, nothing much change, just a big window suddenly popped out. gladly, the preference allow us to “terminate” it. lol,,

    i thought i’ll have a bunch of new features,, but,, yea,, like usual.. no big change.

    Comment by koko — September 11, 2009 #

  27. 3.0 doesn’t work. Where can I get the previous version?

    Comment by olderversionplease — September 11, 2009 #

  28. Well, you asked for comment, Sarah!

    I have just downloaded the latest version, as prompted to by Yahoo Messenger itself. Like people have found, it just hangs on the spinner during login. It’s a serious mess and it has just undermined itself for me and many others. This can’t possibly have been thoroughly tested.

    Please respond to mine and other comments and let us know when this will be fixed.
    Thank you.

    Comment by Martyn Gilbert — September 11, 2009 #

  29. How is it that 3.0 is still in beta? Seems like I have been in 3.0 beta since I got my mac almost 2 years ago.

    Comment by Ben Dover — September 11, 2009 #

  30. [...] New souped-up Messenger for Mac: For all you Mac users, there’s a new beta version of Messenger available for download. Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 comes with a bunch of new bug fixes to help it run more smoothly. You’ll also get the Messenger Insider window that’s available on Windows versions, giving you a daily snapshot of what’s happening on Yahoo! and around the world. Want to take it for a test drive? Download it here and read more here. [...]

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  31. Again, this update is broken. Whats going on?

    Comment by Jake Edmonds — September 12, 2009 #

  32. I installed the new update.
    All the contacts in my address book are named only with Nicknames. The older version of Y!IM used to display the nicknames if no first or last name was available.
    Can you please fix this?

    Comment by John — September 12, 2009 #

  33. Sorry, Sarah. Delete this comment if you will, but that won’t change the fact that this update was a sheer waste of time.

    Insider? Really? Er… how many people here actually read Insider? How about putting up a functional feature that mac users have been begging for for YEARS instead of a useless one that people don’t even need? Why are themes such an issue? Granted, it’s been awhile, but Google’s Chrome browser for mac is to be theme-compatible, so we all know it can be done–and it’s not taking this long to do either. And what’s up with photo sharing? Why are you doing this to your consumers, Sarah, Yahoo? Why not give us something we actually want in an update instead of a silly “report errors” feature? We can all appreciate a good bug/compatibility fix, but please don’t insult us with such useless features while continually and flat-out IGNORING any and all pleas for what we really want. You don’t even give us a yes or no, or even a “Shut up, dog!” You just ignore us. How do you think that makes your consumers feel?

    Yahoo’s customer service to the Mac experience is horrible. Many people have been generous enough or naive enough to continually congratulate your efforts to make Yahoo Messenger better. I’m usually one of those people. You see, we all appreciate effort, but there are those people like me who can only stay so optimistic for so long before finally giving in and saying “What the heck is going on, and why are we not getting what we need? Why are you ignoring us?”

    I’m tired of being ignored, Yahoo. Please fix this soon.

    Comment by Wolfe — September 12, 2009 #

  34. Same for me – ever since installing the ‘upgrade’ Yahoo Messenger will not work for me. Spinning circle, force quit, etc.

    Perhaps the friendly folks at Yahoo could post a link to download the previous version again. Now if I want to access yahoo I have to use the web messenger – yuck.

    Comment by josh — September 13, 2009 #

  35. Sounds like the latest YM for Mac has serious problems. I wanted to download it on my iMac Leopard but feel I should wait till Sarah Bacon responds, especially to the spinner problem. Sarah?

    Comment by sw — September 13, 2009 #

  36. i was confused when i got the update notice since we’re moving from 3.0.4 to 3.0.. seems like a backward move.

    i updated anyway, hoping to get better webcam and audio support since lately my yahoo messenger’s webcam’s been real slow and crashing (same thing happens with the person i’m chatting with), and audio’s been seriously lagging. File transfer’s been having lots of errors, Also when i plug in or out of a usb device the webcam goes off and i cant switch on again unless i sign out and back in.

    So now i’m on the updated 3.0 version —- and i’m experiencing the SAME PROBLEMS!

    Will someone PLEASE fix the problems instead of coming up with redundant stuff like yahoo insider?

    Comment by hovanvan — September 13, 2009 #

  37. POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO SPINNING PROBLEM:
    When I downloaded the updated, I noticed the program was running very slow, but whatever. However, all of a sudden, I got the spinning circle. I reinstalled the software, but that didn’t help. I tried to login with a different Yahoo ID, and it worked like a charm, so I figured the problem had to do with my old profile. I backed up the conversation logs by doing the following: Go to your user folder, then Library, then Application Support, then Yahoo! Messenger, and move the Logs folder to another location (I dragged it to my Desktop). After backing it up, I deleted the Yahoo! Messenger folder in Application Support. Also, I deleted the following folder: Your User > Library > Caches > Yahoo! Messenger (this folder contains some files including Display Pictures for both contacts and yourself). Later, I deleted the following file which contains your preferences like your saved Yahoo ID and password, your Custom Status messages, and general preferences: Your User > Library > Preferences > the file name should be something like com.yahoo.messenger3.Users.YourYahooID.plist. Then, I uninstalled the program from the Application folder and removed the icon in my Dock (all of this because I’d rather be safe than sorry); I believe this guarantees the software has been removed completely from your computer. Afterwards, I just reinstalled and I was able to login no problem. If you need to restore your logs, you should just move the folder you backed up to the location you took it from and replace the existing one (in my case it was empty). Please be aware that this solution worked for me, I AM NOT SAYING THIS IS THE SOLUTION THAT WILL WORK FOR YOU! ALSO, THIS IS NOT REALLY A SOLUTION, JUST A WORKAROUND TO A PROBLEM THAT YAHOO SHOULD LOOK INTO AS MANY PEOPLE ARE EXPERIENCING IT. I will check this thread the following days so please let me know whether this worked for you or not

    Comment by srg — September 13, 2009 #

  38. [...] New souped-up Messenger for Mac: For all you Mac users, there’s a new beta version of Messenger available for download. Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 comes with a bunch of new bug fixes to help it run more smoothly. You’ll also get the Messenger Insider window that’s available on Windows versions, giving you a daily snapshot of what’s happening on Yahoo! and around the world. Want to take it for a test drive? Download it here and read more here. [...]

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  39. 3.o beta will not work for me after trying all work arounds sugested (more than once) I deleted the old version.
    Messenger for web crashes often on Safari, the history will not function and there’s no webcam.

    Please, Yahoo, Anyone; where is a link to the last version I can download?

    Comment by Yang — September 14, 2009 #

  40. hi guys! love the ym on mac much much more than in PC. just wana ask, if the webcam in ym for mac really fixed??

    i prefer it to be undocked hehe how bout you guys??

    thanks!

    Comment by marck — September 14, 2009 #

  41. I’m running Snow Leopard – and was told by a tech savvy friend that the problem might be that Snow Leopard is running at 64bit whereas most other programs are still on 32bit. I have no idea what that means, but I do know that since I installed the update, yahoo has not worked! I was able to sign in the first day, but not able to send any files or use the webcam. Now I can’t even sign in, I just get the spinning “ball of death”.

    I have to agree with some other people on here, and ask if this program was properly tested? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give us a link to the old version. This new one is not ready for use.

    Comment by Cassandra — September 14, 2009 #

  42. Oy!…post the old version. I too can not access my yahoo messenger now. I don’t even get a spinning icon. The program simple just refuses to open up. grrrrrrrrrr

    Comment by Joe — September 14, 2009 #

  43. Do you guys even care about your customers? Most companies would have at least addressed the issue with a reply by now, apologetic or otherwise. Shape up, Yahoo.

    Comment by Wolfe — September 14, 2009 #

  44. I’d like to use YIM but I’m enjoying Skype now talking to a friend in France and one in Asia. Works very nice on my old mac with OX 10.4

    Comment by Yang — September 14, 2009 #

  45. Helloooo…Yahoooo, is anyone listening? I uploaded the new beta version and now nothing works. The program will not run at all. It appears that Yahoo has completely abandoned the Mac users. Really sad, as I have been a faithful, longtime user that really loved the app.

    Please post the older version that actually worked, or fix this current buggy piece of poo!

    Comment by Michael — September 15, 2009 #

  46. I don’t think Sarah likes us. We probably seem like a bunch of loud right wing Conservatives at a Dem. Congresswoman’s town hall meeeting.

    Really, it’s nothing personal. We just need a link to the Beta 2 version (I think) to download, that actually worked.

    Comment by Yang — September 15, 2009 #

  47. As Wolfe and some others have commented. We like that there is at least some work on YM for the MAC, but would would love to see the feature set catch up with the PC version. Can we at the VERY LEAST, get a post on the blog saying that you at least hear us and are working on this, or that there is no planned support for those features (so we can just move on!) You give that message about a Ubuntu version to @Maq above, can we get the same satisfaction? Just please tell us Yes or No if yahoo is even thinking about adding features like Photo Sharing (as listed in the feature compare, this is even in the iPhone app??), Address Book integration, and Games. Just to name a few.

    Thanks (Please)

    Comment by Gibby264 — September 15, 2009 #

  48. Hi folks – I tried everything they troubleshooter for this YM for Mac suggested to no avail. There is clearly something wrong with the new version, and we miss the old one! I found the old one (via a google search) and was able to download it and it works great. It was here:
    http://www.brothersoft.com/yahoo-messenger-for-mac-43828.html

    Comment by josh — September 15, 2009 #

  49. Messenger doesn’t load, the beach ball just spins and spins. It technically loads because I can receive IMs just that the “buddy window” does appear and the loading window stays stuck. Please fix ASAP

    Comment by Jay — September 15, 2009 #

  50. @andrei
    I have yet to see any Windows user look at YIM for Mac and say OOH, this looks so nice! The banner thing aside (personally I’d rather have a little unobtrusive banner if it would mean something more enjoyable to look at), YIM for Mac looks EXACTLY like eeeeeeverything else on a Mac (with the exception of things such as Google Chrome and DivX player, who have stepped up and dared to be refreshingly different). The “theme” YIM for Mac uses is the standard Mac UI (user interface). Think about using something like the Windows Control Panel (the classic Windows 98 style, not the remade XP-Vista-7 ones) for a messenger interface and you’ll see what we’re dealing with here. We like the way Mac looks, but that doesn’t mean EVERYTHING has to look like it–especially when we KNOW there’s an alternative that Yahoo is keeping from us for some unfathomable reason–maybe even deliberately. Who knows? We’ve asked and asked and gotten zip in reply.

    Comment by Wolfe — September 15, 2009 #

  51. Is there any way to disable the Insider?

    Also, will there be a 64-bit release of YM soon?

    Thanks.

    Comment by Marian — September 16, 2009 #

  52. Today i logged out of my messenger (newly updated 3.0) for a few minutes and after that i just can’t log back in at all. It keeps telling me i entered the incorrect login credentials when everything was correctly entered. I freaked out!
    I then tried signing in on my other machine which is the earlier 3.0.4 version running on imac, and same thing, kept telling me incorrect credentials!!
    I tried logging in on my iphone chat apps (incl. the yahoo one) and it worked ok. I’m able to sign into yahoo mail and web messenger with no problems, so it seems the server for the yahoo mac messenger itself just wont recognize my details all of a sudden.
    I reinstalled YM but it didnt help.
    This is getting really really frustrating!! HELP!!!

    Comment by hovanvan — September 16, 2009 #

  53. Andrei,

    Yeah, my comment just before the one you read (which was moderated for some other reasons), mentioned replacing the advertises in the main messanger window and chat rooms by “Yahoo Shortcuts”. If you are not familiar with Yahoo Shortcuts, they are softlinks (dotted underlines on some words) that show you yahoo search results, yahoo maps, yahoo movies or yahoo stock results for a words in your chats. Right now they have this only in Yahoo Mail.

    Comment by Saurabh — September 16, 2009 #

  54. I am running Y!Messenger on Snow Leopard and it seems to work quite well. My only complaint is that stealth implementation is quite trivial, as it does not allow to set a custom status message while being available for a limited group of buddies. That means that whenever you are invisible for 90% of the list and you want to set a status message, that automatically makes you [and your custom status message] available for 100% of the buddies in your list [maybe, except for the ones in the ignore list ]. That being, said, Y!M works fine for me, but I feel with my fellas Y!M users that do not seem to be enjoying the same functionality as I do.

    However, provided the fact that Y!M is a free service, the consumer’s attitude should not be that demanding [even if they (aka we) are right]…

    yours…

    Comment by cedric — September 17, 2009 #

  55. @Cedric
    You know, I thought about that some time ago. It’s true that service is free, but is that really an excuse? Many free services are offered for both Windows and Mac, and it’s not common for the companies who offer the services to be so (purposely?) neglectful to one side over another. Even Microsoft Messenger, who is also behind the times on the Mac front, has enough decency to respond to their users and tell them what’s in the works, and not have the gall to pass off new message notification as a “new” feature.

    Comment by Wolfe — September 17, 2009 #

  56. im with another commented all my yahoo contacts are nicknamed and its showing real names i barely know the people on my list as there real names

    Comment by eastpointvet — September 17, 2009 #

  57. Comment by srg — September 13, 2009 #

    thanks bro… u really save my day, im tired of googling n finally i tried your way, n it work!! yeay.. now to hell i will updated my ym… with some stupid features that i barely use. thanks bro

    Comment by ralph — October 1, 2009 #

  58. Hey guys and gals, I’m running Mac 4.0 and just upgraded this morning to the new beta messenger. At which point when I clicked on it to open it all it did was :hope” twice in my bar and then stop. I can’t even get it to open at this point. I have tried all day with no success to down load Yahoo Messenger so I can use it and am now get annoyed at the fact that yet again it seems their “fix” has created more problems can anyone help? either an old version of YIM or advice….
    Thanks in advance.
    JR

    Comment by JR — October 2, 2009 #

  59. yeah, it’s lame. Doesn’t work for me either with SL…not even starting with Rosetta. Yahoo messenger has been lame frome day one on the Mac side.

    Comment by ron — October 28, 2009 #

  60. @srg
    thank for the way around the spinning problem . . .it worked for me !!

    Comment by ruchira — October 31, 2009 #

  61. After trying all the suggestions, nothing worked so I went back to my troubleshooting steps and was able get it to work for me.

    I went into my /Library/Quicktime folder and removed everything except the two codecs required by iMovie (AppleIntermediateCodec and AppleMPEG2Codec). You have to restart since they are system level codecs.

    After a restart, I went straight to Yahoo Messenger and it started right up. Webcam works fine as well.

    I do a lot of video work so I had to pull 12 codecs out of the Quicktime folder, so I will have to test them one at a time putting them back to see which was the culprit.

    Either way, Yahoo Messenger is working like a charm now. I hope this proves useful for someone.

    Comment by ron — November 8, 2009 #

  62. Thank goodness i found you guys. It’s November. I thought I’d try Yahoo messenger for mac IT DOESN” WORK! Just spins n spins n spin till I have to force quit. Im on 10.6.2 . Going back to adium.

    Comment by John — November 20, 2009 #

  63. Oh my god, this older version actually works on snow leopard 10.6.2:

    http://www.brothersoft.com/yahoo-messenger-for-mac-43828.html

    Big fail, Yahoo, for your update…

    Comment by John — November 20, 2009 #

  64. HOW ABOUT PHOTOSHARING NEEDED BADLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Comment by SHAKIRU — November 27, 2009 #

  65. With so many comments, most of them negative, it’s surprising that there is no response from Yahoo. Anyway, I am using version 3.0 beta (build 191946) and my display image has never worked since I downloaded that version. I am still on Mac 10.5 Leopard (not the snow version). I am just glad it’s a minor issue (I can live without people looking at my profile display although it seems as such a waste if there is a feature that doesn’t work). I am also glad that my main messenger and VOIP service is not Yahoo.

    Comment by Avigayil — December 2, 2009 #

  66. damn!when will you fix all those problem…YM is really part of our lives and I am very disappointed with my YM when I shifted to MAC…no photo sharing, the webcam is not working and it’s constantly disconnecting….grrrr!please create a better version

    Comment by jojo — December 3, 2009 #

  67. What finally got my isight in the last version to work, and then the upgrade to this version, was to do as Ron said and go into your quicktime folder and remove things. I also completely deleted all the yahoo files and folders from the computer, as explained earlier in this thread.

    mac hd/library/quicktime ….. and for me, I removed everything except the flip4mac stuff. I reinstalled the last build that worked, and then upgraded to the newest, and it signs in and isight works.

    Hope this helps.

    Comment by Brian — December 8, 2009 #

  68. Why does Yahoo advertise YIM profiles will display jpegs, gifs, etc., yet in Messenger For Mac Community Yahoo explains under the question “Why do I have to use IE with YM?” that IE is required for this functionality?

    Comment by Bob — December 16, 2009 #

  69. Big fail, Yahoo, for your update… I am using version 3.0 beta (build 191946) and my display image has never worked since I downloaded that version. I am still on Mac 10.5 Leopard what to do ?

    Comment by marius — January 11, 2010 #

  70. same here! since i upgraded the display picture won’t work. isn’t there a update coming up soon? its been 2 years and this is still in beta!

    also, it seems like my status won’t update.

    Comment by Anonymous — January 21, 2010 #

  71. I’m using the newer version, 192773 for Mac on both Snow Leopard (macbook) and on Leopard (G5 PPC) and again the display image doesn’t work. The online help in yahoo answers is just PC related and yet again Yahoo has failed to bring out a version that even does what it says it does on the tin. Very disappointing.

    When’s there a new version which does support this again, Sarah?

    cw

    Comment by Chris — January 28, 2010 #

  72. Seriously, how hard is it to get the display image to work properly? You can set it then sign out and it disappears. Are you actually developing this product for the Mac or is it dead?

    Comment by John Schult — February 5, 2010 #

  73. The messenger for Mac is bad! We need an update! And the same thing happens to me, every time i sign out and sign back in my picture goes away it looks like the oldest version of messenger..I started using Skype though, it’s pretty cool, at least it has video calls and all that! Pleasee someoneeee an updateeeee!!

    Comment by Stephanie Alvarado — February 9, 2010 #

  74. the same problem here, after installing snow leaopard and YM’s latest build……webcam is not working……and the display image just gets blank evry time i log in……

    Moreover, we all are waiting for Pic Share feature…..tht’ll be great to have in a mac version….jst loging to have that…..hope we’ll have that soon…

    Cheers!!!

    Comment by Anubhav — March 2, 2010 #

  75. I have no Yahoo messenger now since you forced 3.0 beta onto me. Everything was fine until I was forced to update. Why force a beta on everyone when you haven’t allowed a return to non-beta software.

    Comment by A. Noid — March 9, 2010 #

  76. I have a Mac with 3.0 beta. A friend has a pc with version 10.
    She can view my webcam, but when she tries to send hers to me it says “not supported”. I have had no problems with other friends who have pcs.

    What to do to get her webcam to work?

    Comment by Nick McCoy — March 28, 2010 #

  77. hi evrybody ,i have yahoo messneger 10 ,my gf have 3.0 beta , im wondring why our webcam is not working ? it should be same messenger ? the problem is im using windows ,and she have mac !!!!
    what is the solution ?! thank you

    Comment by Sharky — July 15, 2010 #

  78. I have a Mac with 3.0 beta. one of my friend has a pc with latest version of yahoo messenger . when he try to web chat with me he cant trun on video and he see my webcam but i can’t ..
 how can i slove this issues .

    Comment by deep — September 26, 2010 #

  79. I have mac 10.5.8 with 3.0 beta. my family has a pc version 10.5 yahoo messenger. when I try to web chat over there. they can’t hear me on video chat. How can I resolve this issues.

    Comment by Reina Turcios — October 14, 2010 #

  80. Come on!!
    WHEN will we see a new version of yahoo messenger for mac???

    Seriously!
    I want to be able to hear the audibles that messenger for windows has! I love those!
    I want to be able to play games with my friends using yahoo for windows!

    I would LOVE to change theme (colour) for the yahoo messenger mac!

    WHEN will we see a new version, if ever?

    Comment by Kuben — November 24, 2010 #

  81. i cant see the refresh botton or the web cam botten

    Comment by michael byrd — November 26, 2010 #

  82. Please allow us Mac users to make the incoming webcam image larger. Fu screen would be nice, but any improvement over that little 2″X2″ image of the person I’m chatting with would be something. half screen, quarter screen even just getting to 4X4 would be much better

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