Comments on: New release of Yahoo! Mail Beta

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:47:29 +0000

I’ve been using the new yahoo mail for a while now and loved it. I’m presently away on vacation and only have access to dial up. Yahoo mail is brutally slow on dialup. I have tried my gmail and it gives me an option of a basic view using HTML. Yahoo just craps out and doesn’t load most of the time. Some times it works, but takes 5 or more minutes to load. I see no data access while I’m waiting for it to load, so the problem seems to be with yahoo, not the connection speed. It’s really frustrating. I’m considering moving all my mail to gmail.

By: Caghan Demirci

Caghan Demirci — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:35:10 +0000

Hi Ryan!

So how’s it going with the Celsius vs. Fahrenheit thing? (See my comment at the very beginning and your answer in comment #8.)

I am not writing this to the “other” Ryan’s blog since I know that you are more closely involved with the developers.
Thanks and cheers all the best!

By: nexusprime

nexusprime — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:22:30 +0000

Safari support? When? Yahoo! Mail Beta has been blocking Safari since 2006.

Quite amusing, when you have Jerry Yang mouthing off at WWDC how they’re loving to innovate with Apple.

I think I’m staying on GMail, thanks. It didnt’ take them upwards of a year.

By: James

James — Thu, 31 May 2007 22:18:53 +0000

Hi Ryan,

Was wondering if you knew anything about the ‘Loading Yahoo! Mail…’ issue when trying to use the new Beta in Firefox?

I happen to have dial-up and the browser is just waiting to load Yahoo mail with the message - in quotes above - displayed with a revolving set of arrows in front of it.

I also noticed my dial-up status shows that over 30 MBs have been downloaded as well (and still going strong at this point).

Is Yahoo mail downloading itself or messages or something, as I have not requested any other downloads (I don’t think Windows is doing it - usually I would see a download icon in tray which I don’t see)?

Anyway, I have seen a couple of posts on Yahoo Answers and they seem to think it is a bug (with no resolution yet).

Thank you,

James.

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:42:12 +0000

Could we add photos to our contacts? That’s the one thing I like in gmail.

By: Z

Wed, 23 May 2007 14:04:16 +0000

Hi Ryan!

I was just wondering when everyone would receive their limitless storage. I have received mine (yay) but I know that friends of mine haven’t. Thank you.

By: Lyn

Lyn — Mon, 14 May 2007 00:22:04 +0000

I too have noticed the same problem of not being able to view attachments (photos) after the email has loaded. VERY IRRITATING. So much so, I have considered switching to Gmail.
Will this be a permanent irritant or will we once again be able to view the attachments without having to “download” each one?

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 08 May 2007 14:44:01 +0000

Hi Ryan -

I’ve been noticing that the pictures people attach to their email messages to me can no longer be viewed within the body of the e-mail. I have to download each attachment in order to view it. It seems like yahoo is loading all the pictures initially, and at first I can see them, but once yahoo is done loading all the attachments, they are no longer visible within the email. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:12:00 +0000

When is Yahoo going to give Mac users the ability to sync Yahoo address book/calendar/email with their computers? I love my Yahoo Mail Beta (I’m a premium user) but I feel like the proverbial red-headed stepchild.

Lack of synchronization is actually causing me to consider (egads) switching and I know it has turned some of my friends away despite my evangelism for all things Yahoo.

By: BW

BW — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:31:44 +0000

Another vote for moving the delete button–I’m too trained now to look for it on the right side…