I tested out the beta and had serious problems with it. Never could find anywhere to report those issues... I'm kind of scared to try 9.

Rose Tyler

@Rose Tyler: Absolutely love the user name and pic! ^__^

Asian Angel

I ♥♥♥ my Singapore edition Yahoo Messenger. ^__^ I have been using the beta for a while now...I will have to check to see if they have the new version up. ^__^

Asian Angel

I really hated the Yahoo Messenger for Vista edition. I hope this is better and not so screwed up on the UI and menu system.

Lazarus

wow, that's the first time i've ever thought twice about IM being productive. this seems relevant to my interests.

Swizzler121

Remember how they were working on a special Yahoo Messenger for Vista, outside of the main line? I even installed the beta. What became of that effort? Vista is old news now

burnblue

Just installed YM on my brand new Vista Home Premium computer and it runs for literally 4 seconds and crashes. I can only get YM 8.x to work. The beta YM for Vista sucks golf balls through garden hose. It doesn't even have webcam support.

Seriously bummed out here.

Nuclear Moose

@burnblue:
I don't know. I really liked that version. First yahoo messenger version in a long time i didn't have massive problem with

LordDaMan

+1

sirfice

*ahem*
digsby is better.

marksman7328

The latest Mac Beta is pretty good, but still lags way way behind the windows versions.

Vombatus

I wonder how long until Pidgin will have the same features.

Duane

@Rose Tyler: @Asian Angel: That is the best.

Duane

@Duane: With the attitude of the Pidgin devs? Never.

TheBip

For anyone who does not like the "dropper" file exe, there is a way around that to get the full size file to download to your hard drives. ^__^

You can use this weblink and set the two-letter code for your nationality of choice (ie. sg for Singapore, cn for China, us for the United States, etc...):

"http://us.dl1.yimg.com/download.yahoo.com/dl/msgr9/sg/ymsgr9sg.exe"

This is the link that I used to get the Singapore edition that I wanted. Hope this helps! ^__^

Asian Angel

I had no idea that people still used first-party IM clients.

Seriously... this is like a revelation to me.

urukhaifive

Aiya, I forgot to bold the other part of the link that needs to have the two-letter code changed. >__<

"http://us.dl1.yimg.com/download.yahoo.com/dl/msgr9/sg/ymsgr9sg.exe"

Asian Angel

@urukhaifive: haha yea, some of us do...because the first-party software has features, that we just miss when using the third-party

someone please leave me a comment on second-party software...i think i know, but can't be bothered to check right now cause I'm tierd

Zepth

@TheBip: damn, cause pidgin cloning yim i could live with....in fact pidgin cloning yim would help me with the final push onto linux...msn messenger is the only thing i can honestly say is keeping me on windows now

Zepth

@Asian Angel: @Duane: does that sort of comment not belong on the persons page?
oh damn...i'm just as bad now

Zepth

well looks like msn will be keeping my custom, and all because yahoo haven't stretched one feature to Europe
longer post about it

Zepth

Didn't I read somewhere that with the new version, you will also be able to embed chat support in your blogs?

whoisvaibhav

Take that Microsoft! (Windows Live Messenger)
But I still like the looks of WLM/MSN.

dicito

@Rose Tyler: The 9.0 Beta was a complete dog! I hope they've de-kinked this one out properly..

shrik

@Zepth: Why? I use Pidgin on my Vista machine, and only whip out WL Messenger when I'm going to do a video chat, or something.

Something I was surprised with was that all the computers at my university have Pidgin installed. :D

.endejas.

So far 9 has been running fine all day for me on XP Pro. Quick edit of the hosts file, no more ads, and can make the messenger slim out very nicely. I do miss having the ability go go to a classic theme.

jkorkiner

@Rose Tyler: Are you kddin me?!!? The beta was the BEST IM ive ever tried! I LOVE Yahoo.....maybe im saying this.because I am a power user idk lol But the new one is bug free (yea right) But try it first!

Saad Baig

The new version has nice features but the memory usage and startup time is rather high.

And too bad that the invisible feature is bypassed by sites like [invisible-scanner.com]

a_smith

@Saad Baig: It was the worst for myself and my boyfriend.... half the time he couldn't see me online and half the time I couldn't see him online. Neither of us uses the "invis" feature. I couldn't click on links he would send me... links work everywhere else on my comp though. Odd enough, the beta worked great up until the last month before the new version was released.

Rose Tyler