Yahoo! Messenger 10: Final version now available
November 12, 2009 on 7:37 pm | In 10 version | 84 Comments
Thanks to all of you who tried out Yahoo! Messenger 10 during the Beta period and provided feedback about your experience.
As of today, Yahoo! Messenger 10 is no longer in Beta. You can download the final version from our website. This latest version (10.0.0.1102) incorporates many bug fixes, including some related to our new video call feature. We’ve also improved the overall stability of the product.
If you’re a Windows 7 user, you’ll be glad to know this version is compatible with the new operating system.
Below is a summary of the features that are in Yahoo! Messenger 10. Be sure to watch the demo video at the end of this article for a quick tour.
High-quality video calls
We’ve completely redesigned our 1:1 webcam feature (under the hood too). Now you can make a high-quality video call to a friend with synched audio, right in the IM window. Features include the ability to swap video windows, position the video windows side-by-side, mute the call or place it on hold. You can even go full-screen with your video call. To get started, click the new “Video Call” button in the IM window (your friend also needs to be on Yahoo! Messenger 10). Tips for making video calls | Having fun with video effects
New “Y! Updates” view of your contact list
People are busy these days, doing all sorts of interesting things online. To help you keep up with your friends, we added an alternate view of your contact list that shows a real-time stream of their updates, including Messenger status message changes. If they’ve opted-in to share their updates via Yahoo!, you’ll be able to see what they’re saying on Twitter, reading on Yahoo! Buzz, listening to on last.fm, and more.
We also added additional features for how and when you see your friends’ updates. When a new update comes in, a “toast” alert will pop up in the lower right corner of your screen. If you want to disable these, go to Messenger > Preferences > Yahoo! Updates. You can turn alerts on and off and even update preferences by contact or by type of update.
Find more to chat about
Within the new “Yahoo! Updates” view, you’re sure to find more to talk about with your friends. To make it easy, we added a hover menu that lets you quickly IM a friend about their update. When you do, the update appears inline in the conversation window, so when you start your IM with “I can’t believe you like this song!”, your friend will know what you’re talking about. Note that your friend needs to also be on Yahoo! Messenger 10 to see the update inline.
Change your language easily
If you use the U.S. version but wish it could be in your local language, you’re in luck. When you start up Yahoo! Messenger 10, you’ll notice a new language menu on the sign-in screen. Choose from 16 different languages and the buttons, menus and various parts of the interface will change to that language. If you’re already signed in, you can also change your language under Messenger > Preferences > Language (you’ll have to restart Yahoo! Messenger for it to take effect).
As with any new release, we welcome your feedback about what’s working well for you and what’s not. After using Yahoo! Messenger 10 for a bit, go to the Help menu and select “Send Feedback” to get started.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
Awesome.. can’t wait to test it out.
Comment by Vinayak — November 12, 2009 #
Thank you Sarah, great job by you and your team. TGIF is right on time.
Comment by Henryk — November 12, 2009 #
so thats it?
why yahoo doesnt care about all the people who have requested aero and transparency effects?
sigh ….
Comment by Rouzbeh — November 12, 2009 #
Hi! Love the new version, but can’t find the launchcast plugin. Anybody can help? Thanks!
Comment by Grumphus — November 13, 2009 #
I’m sorry, but from what I saw on the other post, everyone was requesting system integration with Vista and 7. Did you listen to all those people and made a skin that looks like it’s from the same operating system?
Comment by Lucretiu — November 13, 2009 #
This isn’t an valid update. (its more like an adware)
Ok so what about all the people that requested the remove of Y! Updates because those people like me have other better things to do beside making traffic on yahoo sites!!!!!!
And what about Y inside I see appears too on the interface?
Can those 2 feature be removed by the user as I requested on the beta and so other people?
From what I see this is just an update meant to bring more revenue to yahoo…
If I wold like to see what others are doing I wold use tweeter, face book and so on…
I believe that Y! Updates uses RAM (and considering I don’t need it) so no performance update.
No interface needed update!
No integration with Win 7.
Comment by Mircea — November 13, 2009 #
I have downloaded the new yahoo messenger 10 and i try to install it, but i received an error. It’s the first time when i see this.
Here are some screenshots with yahoo messenger installation error.
1st – http://i37.tinypic.com/1267ckl.jpg
i’ve tried to click on retray but no results, and when i click on cancel here is what it’s said:
2nd – http://i35.tinypic.com/iqjyc1.jpg
I can’t install yahoo messenger, and i realy need it. So please let me know whan shall i do ?
Comment by JR — November 13, 2009 #
Whenever you instant message a user that is offline. You see this message
“username appears to be offline and will receive your messages after signing in. You can also send a message to username’s mobile phone.
Send an SMS Message (Ctrl+T)”
Is that really necessary? I mean what if the person isn’t mobile or offline. Maybe they’re just invisible.
Comment by SGFC — November 13, 2009 #
tank you for yahoo messenger group
Comment by Boken — November 13, 2009 #
Wow, another hit&miss by the Y!M developers crew
I was hoping the 10th release would change my mind in using other clients… but now I’m sure: Pidgin is the answer.
Comment by rats — November 13, 2009 #
It is sometimes difficult to log in with Version 10 in Windows 7. Please give me an update for that. Thanks.
Comment by Huu Dung Nguyen — November 13, 2009 #
Dear Staff;
The “new” Yahoo Messenger looks great.
I plan to use it a lot.
However, what happened to the chat room > “Salsa para los Rumberos”.
This chat room brought people from all over the globe who have a passion for Salsa music.
Thank you!
Comment by NuYoRican DeCorazon — November 13, 2009 #
So, Yahoo’s idea of a new version is to just mix up the features and call it a new version? Get on the ball! Everyone else has already caught on to Windows 7, why can’t Yahoo? Oh, that’s right, Yahoo isn’t capable of doing the right thing. Which is the reason for canning the WPF version of Yahoo, which was leaps and bounds better than this crappy rehash of a client they continue to push out since 2004. You’re not fooling me by simply calling it “10″. When I know in reality, it’s just version 8.2.
Comment by Marcus McCurdy — November 13, 2009 #
I know that not everybody love the transparency, but why yahoo can’t integrate with 7 look, or make skins for all kinds of users?
Comment by R3BoRN — November 13, 2009 #
I downloaded the final release of Y!M 10 (coming from the very first Y!M 10 Beta release) a few hours ago, used it since then and everything seems to be good so far. No lag, no crashing whatsoever. I really don’t understand why some people keep complaining about Yahoo! Messenger. Firstly – correct me if I’m wrong but the service was mainly designed to keep in touch with family and friends by IMing, voice chatting and now thanks to the newest version, we can also video chat in high quality video. IMO, those are the main and best features most people would use. Other things are just gimmicks if you ask me.
Comment by robert szombati — November 13, 2009 #
Here is a big bug, that was not fixed.
I need to rename my contacts. Please help me.
I can’t rename my contacts. It sais “A contact with the same Yahoo ID already exists”.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091111055704AACcH2j
And another case:
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090914052517AA5TTnY
Comment by R3BoRN — November 13, 2009 #
Even though I chose a custom installation and unchecked all of the boxes, Yahoo still decided to change my home page, default search engine, and added shortcuts to various places on my computer. I’ve uninstalled, and will be telling everyone not to use this crap anymore.
Comment by Very Angry — November 13, 2009 #
Since a LOT of Romanians are using this program I would expect that it would have this language. Since I see no respect for us I am going to move to Google Wave as soon as it became public. Here I see there is a waste of my time…
Comment by haiucul — November 13, 2009 #
It doesn’t work with the macbook pro’s microphone under Win7:(
Comment by puska kellett volna bazdmeg — November 13, 2009 #
Thanks for this wonderful update, but still… You’ve finished a new Windows version in merely a few months, but you are still keeping the Mac version in beta since last year, or more. Please, don’t give the Mac users to damn… We really need a new version too.
I’m currently using Windows, Mac AND Linux. To ask for a Linux version it’s like asking for a cat to bark, you won’t do it anyway, but please… Put a bit your effort into the Mac version too.
Many thanks! ^^
Comment by Geo ^^ — November 13, 2009 #
You really disappointed me…this version doesn’t have Romanian language …a large percentage of Romanian use Yahoo Messenger so I was hopping that the final version will include Romanian language…I see that Yahoo doesn’t care about others countries who have many users of yahoo since we doesn’t have even http://yahoo.ro .
Comment by Ionutz — November 13, 2009 #
I love the updates tab! Thank you!
Comment by Mike — November 13, 2009 #
I like it because i can now make video calls. Thanks
Comment by Abiola — November 13, 2009 #
I selected custom install and unchecked all the boxes, but it didn’t seem to pay any attention to my requests. Changed my home page, added as a search provider in IE8, and put an icon on my desktop. Thankfully it didn’t install toolbar crap, but its still pretty jarring and annoying.
Comment by Jason Baginski — November 13, 2009 #
Well, the install of YM 10.0…1102us went fine for me BUT see my earlier post. The FULL version that I dl’ed from FileHippo.com DID NOT have any boxes to uncheck about the toolbar, etc., so I was worried at first but the install went fine and my homepage is still the same and nothing else added, at least not as far as I can see and none of my security programs alerted to anything else being changed except for adding YM. For others reading this, read my earlier comment and clean up your computer after uninstalling the older version (preferably using Revo Uninstaller) and then clean your registry and then download the FULL version from FileHippo and you should get a nice clean install. Don’t forget to go through all the Preferences Menu and get things back to how you like since YM will also go back to their default settings on a new install.
Comment by Lenny Vasbinder — November 13, 2009 #
It’s not good. I hate it. No integration with Vista and 7.
Comment by A — November 13, 2009 #
I’ve tried to download version 10 three times now and each time when it starts to install it says it is trying to install version 9.0.0.2166!
Comment by Ronn — November 13, 2009 #
+1 on it changing my home page and default search. I always uncheck all the ‘options’ at install, yet it still changed both home page and default search. But then, after install, it still always wants to run at windows start as well no matter that was unchecked before as well.
Comment by Chris — November 13, 2009 #
I can confirm that the Custom install ignores the settings for Search, Quick Launch Icon, Desktop Icon, and Home Page.
Comment by Marcus McCurdy — November 13, 2009 #
I cannot download the new version beta 10 was fine
system says encountered network error cannot download files even with firewall switched off
is anyone else encountering this
Comment by amandazz100 — November 13, 2009 #
it looks not so good. you said that got a language option but it’s horrible, 3 or 4 different english, different spanish dialects and all… we can’t find our language… that’s really bad and we should use patchs for it. and it’s not accessible though.. i didn’t like it at all
Comment by Messengerpark — November 14, 2009 #
What about the Romanian language ? When will be disponible?
Comment by topo — November 14, 2009 #
- NO Aero support ?!
- NO IM TABS ?!
- 16 languages ? there are 6,700 on this planet
Do you people even read the requests ?!
Are you paid for this, i hope not.. ?
If you ask me, and 90% of Y!M this deserves the version 7.
Comment by Sebastian — November 14, 2009 #
- when i use diacritics it crashes
- doesn’t remember IM window size
let’s make a list here.. maybe the “Send a feedback..” it’s just for fools..
Comment by Sebastian — November 14, 2009 #
Figures.
No Aero, Jumplist, or Pinned Taskbar support. No shocker there, I mean, they STILL use XP on every freakin’ machine in their company I guess, since ALL their screenshots of the latest yahoo are taken from an XP machine, after all.
And it seems it doesn’t even listen to your options during install, either! Forcing it’s toolbars, start pages, etc on you and screwing up your computer’s configuration!
Yahoo has officially abandoned its users, if Pidgin supported webcam over Yahoo protocol, I’d uninstall Yahoo in a heartbeat and never look back. At least Pidgin themes properly with Aero and doesn’t slow my machine nearly as bad or invade my computer’s configuration.
Comment by Lazure — November 14, 2009 #
***WARNING *** to anyone using a test plugin. They are no longer working as of this released version (v10.0.0.1102) of YIM. Prior betas up to this version still work with test plugins. Until this is fixed (or Yahoo starts the plugin dev program back up), I will be reverting to a previous version.
Comment by Gerry — November 14, 2009 #
I upgraded to this version on my laptop that uses Vista and now I can’t even get it to load. When I was installing it I got an error message saying that I didn’t have rights to run the icalc.dll or something like that but it still installs it. When I try to run it I keep getting an error message saying that it “Can’t load the resource DLL”. It doesn’t even show up on the programs list so that I can uninstall it and try to install it again which I tried to do anyway but I still get the same error messages. Until you provide me with a fix I will not be upgrading it on my desktop because it doesn’t work at all!
Comment by Ally — November 14, 2009 #
i keep getting this error when starting the application: the application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002). click ok to terminate the application. I use winxp sp3…what to do???
Comment by NEo — November 14, 2009 #
I have the same problem as Neo
what should I do?
Comment by Cissy — November 14, 2009 #
okay i figured out how to fix the 0xc0150002 error
Download RegCure
http://www.jonathan2.tk
Scan your pc then reinstall YM
Comment by Cissy — November 15, 2009 #
After updating to the new version from BETA. when you lose the internet connection or disconnecting form the internet, yahoo messenger just crash instead of just try to connect again as previous versions
Comment by Ashraf — November 15, 2009 #
i cannot install it, i tried to because i was just curious if you solved the problem with the unavailability to select which one of the different profiles to be active (in 8th version is possible to select between alias)
BUT:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: YahooMessenger.exe
Application Version: 10.0.0.1102
Application Timestamp: 4af9f8ef
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6002.18005
Fault Module Timestamp: 49e03824
Exception Code: c0150002
Exception Offset: 0006f04e
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 9d13
Additional Information 2: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8
Additional Information 3: 9d13
Additional Information 4: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8
Comment by Monique — November 15, 2009 #
Noticed some nice new features!
It’s good, but I would like to ask if Y!Messenger is going to be more integrated with Windows Live Messenger in the future in order to show the avatars of people using Windows Live, for example.
Comment by okotzam — November 15, 2009 #
regcure doesn’t fix the problem
Comment by NEo — November 15, 2009 #
just 16 languages ? where’s romanian language ?
Comment by R3BoRN — November 15, 2009 #
): it wont install for me! please help! i always get
‘Install Unsuccessful’
‘Yahoo Mesenger did not correctly install. This may have been due to other open applications or incomplete installs. Please try to install again after restarting your computer.’
heres my question on yahoo answers! id rly like the help!
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091115095728AAs3Yta&r=w
Comment by Asia — November 15, 2009 #
Y!M v10 = Y!M v9 + rubbish
Y!M v9 = Y!M v8 + rubbish
>> Y!M v10 = Y!M v8 + tons of rubbish !!!
…keep using v8.1.0.421 on my new Windows 7 lappy because of the new crappy themes still not supports Aero.
Waiting for a day that v8 is set to retire, I’ll remove it and install Pidgin or Trillian,…
Comment by AnOldMan — November 15, 2009 #
Why the new messenger is not included all the language from the world ?
Comment by Andrew — November 15, 2009 #
This is unacceptable! 99% of the Romanian population uses Yahoo! Messenger and there is no romanian language?!?!!
This must be a really bad joke, and it’s not even April fools.
Comment by Gaby — November 15, 2009 #
I foolishly downloaded the new version because this post had ‘Works with Windows 7′ as a feature. 50% of the time when I try to start it on Win7 it freezes on startup – I can’t even kill it from the Task Manager or by logging out so I instead have to completely reboot my computer!! NO other program crashes this badly on my Windows 7 laptop.
Compatible with Windows 7? I think not!! Even when it does run, there’s no Aero support. While every other program sports the ‘new’ (OK, 4 years old) Aero look and feel, Yahoo! Messenger still has its own horrible skins. They might have been cutting-edge for Windows 95, but on Windows 7 they look utterly horrible.
Jumplist support? Windows Live Messenger allows me to do all kinds of things from the taskbar. Yahoo! Messenger has ZERO jumplist support and doesn’t follow Windows 7’s design guidelines at all.
The new video calling is nice enough, the rest of the features are pretty useless. Yahoo! should forget about trying to imitate Facebook/Twitter and concentrate on making a decent client that is reliable, looks good, and integrates into Windows properly.
Comment by Natalie — November 15, 2009 #
AnOldMan > does 8 at least leave the aero window borders alone? I’m afraid I don’t have an installer for 8 laying around, and I last used it way back in XP days, so I don’t how it fares with windows 7.
Comment by Lazure — November 15, 2009 #
PLEASE FIX YAHOO MESSENGER 10…. WHEN YOU INSTALL AND UNCHECK MAKE YAHOO YOUR HOMEPAGE, IT STILL MAKES IT YOUR HOMEPAGE… FIX THIS ISSUE!
Comment by Mike — November 15, 2009 #
new messenger 10 takes up more memory
Comment by zip — November 15, 2009 #
NO integration for Windows 7? For Vista also…even though Vista is launched for some years…it’s a real shame for Yahoo people. Hey, wake up!!! Windows XP it’s dead guys!!! Make a version that millions of users expect from you, something glossy for Vista and 7. Sometime in the past there was a Yahoo Messenger version for Vista which looks great even if had limited features. Why did you abandoned that project?
THE NEW VERSION IS UGLY AS THE OTHERS AND LOOKS LIKE WE’RE 10 YEARS AGO. WAKE UP YAHOO PEOPLE!!!
Comment by dragos — November 16, 2009 #
IT DOESN’T WORK ON WINDOWS 7!!!
I thought they made it better this time but I was wrong.
I receive error messages every time when a contact sends me an IM.
Comment by cindy — November 16, 2009 #
WTF?
. WHEN YOU INSTALL AND UNCHECK MAKE YAHOO YOUR HOMEPAGE, IT STILL MAKES IT YOUR HOMEPAGE… FIX THIS ISSUE!
Comment by mircea — November 16, 2009 #
JUST PLEASE, SELL YOUR USER DATABASE TO MICROSOFT, SO WE CAN USE LIVE MESSENGER AT FULL CAPABILITES!
THANK YOU ON THE BEHALF OF 99.(9)% YAHOO MESSENGER USERS.
Comment by Maicăl — November 16, 2009 #
All these comments and i don’t see any reply from the yahoo side!!
Are you intentionally building up this frustration among yahoo users by not listening or u guys just waiting to surprise the same crowd with a better version of YM with integration to windows vista and 7 hoping for a splash? I hope its the latter one.
Comment by Lerauxe — November 16, 2009 #
Doesn’t allow users to report a bug. + Video calling is not possible if only 1 person has webcam.
= Regretting having upgraded to new version + Don’t know how to go back to earlier version
Comment by Pran — November 16, 2009 #
Yahoo IM 10 looks great and worked great on my XP machine. All the video worked wonderfully. On my new Windows 7 though it doesn’t. There are several major problems. With Broadcast on, the frame rate goes from near real time to about .5 frames/sec. It can’t even find the webcam when opening video in a chat window. Help please! I have loved version 10. It just doesn’t work with video on a very expensive Windows 7!
Thank you,
Hank
Comment by Hank — November 16, 2009 #
I don’t like it… add areo and redesign it for windows 7
Comment by A — November 16, 2009 #
Seriously… I can’t be the only one who is upset that Yahoo STILL doesn’t support Tabbed IM Windows for Windows users?! This is ridiculous! The Mac and Web versions have it and EVERY other IM Client has Tabs! I am SO sick of my desktop being cluttered with Yahoo windows! What is the point of this blog if you ignore all of the Feedback you get?!?!
Comment by theJRT — November 16, 2009 #
I agree with the majority here this should not be final.. it says windows 7 support but there is nothing ground breaking about this for windows 7 users.. no jump lists and yeah it needs aero and need to be redesigned to be considered a jump from version 9 to 10. what did they do? just add a bunch of different icons and a new way of video conferencing.. i also noticed that some of the new icons are not present in certain areas so u have a mix of the new and old ones.. this makes it look like a not finished product.
Comment by Matt — November 16, 2009 #
This is unacceptable ! 80% of the Bangladeshi population uses Yahoo! Messenger and there is no Bangladeshi language/Audible etc. etc. !
Comment by Sharif — November 16, 2009 #
You are well beyond reality!!! Still without aero integration after years of Vista and now 7??? I switched on windows live messenger man…
Comment by nick — November 16, 2009 #
Hi,
Well, Sarah Bacon (Product Manager) says that it supports Windows 7. Then why dont they mention it on their website main page. It shows the system requirements as Windows XP, Vista. I beleive that Yahoo would have had its hands on win7 many many months before, like RTM version or something of that sort. I still have the Y!9 on my win7 running pretty ok… and after reading all these comments i dont dare to spoil my brand new Win7 laptop by installing this crap.
Yahoo! went too commercial and have already crossed the line since long back when they first started to show ads, plug-ins and insider on the main window. Sure, we can hide plugins and insider, but wht abt Ads?? I like a chat client to be simple and light weight just like Gtalk. I only use yahoo because of my friends who still use yahoo.
I mean common guys… its V10! you should have done more…. It should have actually been like an automobile manufacturer launching a new generation of its famous model… not just adding a tail light modification.
May be you are making good revenues with your messenger versions, but you are just lagging way behind in terms of user satisfaction!
My next yahoo messenger upgrade will only be when it launches a fully tested and compatible with Win7 version. I would be even more happier if it launches a 64 bit version…. common guys… wake up….!! we are entering 2010… Its not a crime to ask more people friendly technology!!!
“If you are not here to win… then you are just a TOURIST!!!”
Comment by Menas Ahmed — November 17, 2009 #
This version of Yahoo Messenger it’s version 8 with 10 instead of 8. It brings not so much new things. I hope you will be working to version 11 since version 10 is a crap…and in the future you should retire all versions 8,9,10 and leave only the 11 version which will be a completely new designed version who will satisfy all yahoo users with new design and more languages. Thx for listening my complains.
Comment by a person from Romania... — November 17, 2009 #
Ok people from Yahoo, what do you want? I mean, look at all those comments. 67 , with mine 68. Why aren’t you listening, huh? Is it that hard to make some changes so that the users would apreciate your client more?
It can’t be that hard to introduce Aero look. Or Tabbed windows. If you’ll continue with this attitude, you’ll get nothing. You don’t have the only IM Client on the market. I upgraded from v9 to v10 hoping I would find even a fraction of what I wanted. I’ve sent you feedback , but what if?
I’m just a worthless IM user, and you have all the good ideas and everything you say is good, isn’t it?
C’mon! Is it that hard to give a reply?
We don’t need the Y!Updates tab. We don’t want ads. We don’t want these skins. If you wanna do something right, that do this :
Add an Aero look
Add Tabbed windows ( like in the Y!M for Vista)
Remove Ads
Remove the Y!Updates Tab
and for users from Romania, add the romanian language pack.
Please, listen to what we have to say!!!
Comment by A citizen of Romania — November 17, 2009 #
If file transfers and photo sharing isn’t fixed then I don’t think I care very much.
The file transfer and photo sharing issues have been a persistant issue for a long long time now, we’re talking a couple of years at least.. and it’s never been fixed.
I can transfer fine in AIM, MSN, Google Chat and some third party clients like pidgin do well too, but yahoo fails .. if I retry the file 2-3 .. sometimes 8-10 times.. then it goes.
I saw no comment about fixing that so i’ll assume it’s not since I’ve not had a chance to upgrade yet.
Comment by Lonnie — November 17, 2009 #
dear Sarah
I have problem with my yahoo messeger about adding my freinds on the list . I use vista .I appreciate your reply .
mitra
Comment by mitra — November 18, 2009 #
Dear Staff;
Early this morning while using the current Yahoo! Messenger 10…
I had attempted to initiate my web cam it crashed every time within an IM window…
While the web cam is active it’s to large that it blows it off my monitor…
I can’t even type a message & I can barely see the audibles…
@ the present moment I’m still using WIN XP Pro SP3.
What shall I do to recuperate from or correct this situation of mine?
Thank you!
Comment by NuYoRican deCorazon — November 18, 2009 #
Yahoo messenger 10 final crashes on windows 7 32bit when ever I open a chat window.. FAIL reverting back to 9.0
Comment by Calcipher — November 18, 2009 #
You should listen to your users, yahoo messenger team, not ignore them. Nothing has changed since beta. I find version 8 much more apealing than than version 9/10. The 10th version of ym should have been something “big”, not a 9.x version. If version 8 will get retired, i too will retire using ym. Good job team!
Comment by Alex — November 18, 2009 #
Not very impressed with the new version. Seems like Yahoo Messenger doesn’t have a strong vision behind it, and is more and more turning into bloatware. Look at the current leaders in software – Google, Apple, Microsoft – all concentrating on making things smaller and faster and more user-friendly. A few of my complaints:
Photo Sharing – this does not work smoothly, and is often very buggy and stalls, requiring a lot of restarts. Also, users on Macs aren’t able to use this feature, which is one of the few things that makes YM stand out from the competition.
Controlling who sees you as invisible/visible also seems kind of buggy, with people who I’m supposed to be invisible to seeing me as online and saying ‘Hi!’, while others who I want to be visible to ask me why I’m invisible when I message them.
There was also something in the version 10 hype about ‘watching videos together’ but I don’t see the feature anywhere, and I do think it would be neat to actually be watching the same video at the same time, (for example, so the other person sees when the other rewinds, or pauses).
Comment by fd — November 18, 2009 #
@fd – The feature where you can watch videos together is in version 9 and 10. When you share a video link from a video service like YouTube or Yahoo! Video in your IM conversation, the video appears inline in the conversation window. If the video type is supported by the Zync plug-in (e.g. YouTube and Yahoo! Video), a yellow “Watch With Me” button appears in the video window. Click that and the Zync plug-in launches. Not every video type is supported by the Zync plug-in – only Yahoo! Video, Flickr and YouTube. So if you’re sharing a video from another service, the Watch With Me button will not appear. More info here:
http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2009/02/27/zync-plug-in-watch-videos-with-a-friend/
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — November 18, 2009 #
Ok, thanks Sarah, I will have to try that next time the opportunity comes up. I would like to see it support more video (especially uploaded from an individual’s computer), but that’s interesting.
Thanks for your reply.
Comment by fd — November 18, 2009 #
First, I find it extremely disturbing that your setup changed my browser default page and search engine after I explicitly unchecked those options.
Second, 50Mb Working Set? Really? Outlook 2010 takes less than that. Word 2010 takes up 20Mb of memory and probably has magnitudes of features more than your application. Please add a Lite SKU, no plugins, no audibles, no “Y! Updates”, no “skins”, no chat… just a thin, fast IM client.
Third, native theme support (Aero on W7, XP Theme, etc). I’m sure “custom skinning engines” were all the hype back in 2000, but Windows’ theming technology is mature enough now to satisfy most users’ requirements.
Comment by TekmanRO — November 18, 2009 #
Why is the yahoo messenger always configuring my network connections before allowing me to sign in. And sometimes it does not sign me in. Please, I want a lasting solution to this problem. I am using the all new yahoo messenger 10. the newest version. Thank You.
Comment by Armstrong — November 19, 2009 #
I will stick to y9 until i am forced to upgrade. nothing special on y10. just a bunch of useless stuff. like i care where Joe blow went out to dinner too. got anything else to offer? and the new cam interface is just another thing the perverts and idiots in the chat rooms can use to harass the women. definitely not an upgrade. just a new look. with a lot more bugs for the Booter programs to take advantage of.
Comment by Johnny12467 — November 19, 2009 #
please i need a help on my yahoo messenger 10.I have done very thing but the problem is that i can’t sign on,it keep on showing me troubleshoots and i dont know how to work on that please if you very well on windows vista basic.
Comment by dazzy — November 19, 2009 #
@dazzy – Please contact customer care for assistance: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/messenger/messenger10/forms_index.html
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — November 19, 2009 #
Anyone know how to import a previous archive into the archive for 10?
Comment by vince — November 19, 2009 #
Hey Sarah! How come your yahoo messenger doesnt have an ad????
Comment by moi — November 19, 2009 #
@moi – My Yahoo! Messenger does have an ad. I used Photoshop to remove it for the screenshot so it wasn’t so large.
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — November 20, 2009 #