"New" Yahoo Mail System

[launderess]

Had terrible problems when running my old computer and accessing Yahoo's old site, but once the new system was up and running using IE 8 things were fine.

Mind you have no plans to sign up for Yahoo's newest version until it is forced upon me, and even then may take my "free" accounts elsewhere if the thing is as buggy as everyone states.

Damn MS keeps asking to install IE9 as an "upgrade" and will have no part of that either.

 

[dirtybuck]

Isn't IE 9 supposed to be compatible with ONLY Vista or Windows 7? If that's the case, then I'm SOL (still an XP user here).

 

[DADoES]

 
My XP systems are running IE8. IE9 isn't offered in the update list on them.

I do have IE9 in the Win7 system. WinNT and 2K can't go past IE6.

IE10 supposedly will run only on Win7 and Win8, not on Vista.

Firefox v6 and Thunderbird v6 are now available.

 

[launderess]

Well Only A Few Days Left

Of the old Yahoo mail. Am getting messages everytime one logs on that effective 9 September or there about the switch will take place, period. Sort of like what Hotmail did with their email accounts a few years back.

 

[rp2813]

You Can Keep Using Classic

Reply #16 got me my Classic back.  Reply #18 provides highlights of how I did it.

 

While I like having Classic again, there are some things I miss about the new version, but not enough to want it back until they've got the bugs worked out of it.

 

[supersuds]

Launderess, I just click on "No thanks, continue with Yahoo Classic Mail" which you can find buried in the fine print of the "Only a few days left" page. So far, it works.

 

[launderess]

Thanks, I've Seen and Done That

But the knife is still going to fall on 9 September 2011! *LOL*

What all these various work arounds (and there are a few on the Internet) seem to do is change or block the data sent to Yahoo's servers from one's own computer telling which browser is installed. There is another trick as well of changing the screen resolution to below what is required for the new Yahoo mail. Once Yahoo's servers pick up on this another error message will ask if one wishes to revert to the classic version.

Being as all this may, some other techie pundits out there are warning that Yahoo will not keep the classic version around much longer after the switch over. In short it will simply cease to exist and consumers will have to upgrade or take their business elsewhere. This does seem to be the current trend as one does not think it is possible to get the "old" version of Hotmail back any longer.

Can understand why so many love older versions of software and programs, but more and more support for such legacy things are being dropped by the wayside. I blame the whole thing on Microsoft who started it all, but now everyone seems to do it.

One of the reasons we purchased a new computer was that so many websites and such simply were no longer working properly without IE7 or above.

Regarding complaints over the new Yahoo mail: yes they are out there and in good numbers. However since Yahoo offers the service for free don't expect much from them other than customers basically being told to "take it or leave it",in a polite manner of course.

Problem for so many is that not only do they have multiple Yahoo mail accounts but have had them for ages. This could mean hundreds of emails saved up over the years that would have to be "sent" or otherwise moved to another service.

 

[lordkenmore]

"Problem for so many is that not only do they have multiple Yahoo mail accounts but have had them for ages. This could mean hundreds of emails saved up over the years that would have to be 'sent' or otherwise moved to another service."

No kidding. Another problem: updating the address info with people one knows. In some ways, that can be easy--it's a matter of letting regular contacts know the new address. (Although I've found with bitter experience that even with multiple reminders, there are some that persist in using the old address.) Irregular contacts can be a bigger problem. People who aren't in one's address book because it's not worth entering their info. People like this can slip through the cracks. Or who raise the question of "well,I MIGHT need to be in contact, but again maybe not, should I let them know?"

Then, some people have an additional problem that their address is something given out freely as a method of contact, and it may not be easy updating the info. Writers sometimes give an e-mail address in their books for contact, and if that address changes, there is no way of updating printed books.

My method of changing e-mail accounts has been to notify the people I'm in regular contact with. I keep the old address alive at least for a while. I don't check it as regularly as my current e-mail. But I do check it, and thus will eventually get a message sent by someone who didn't get my message.

 

[supersuds]

But the knife is still going to fall on 9 September 2011

Mine has started saying September 19. Maybe they're doing it in batches?

There's also something about them scanning your mails to target ads to you, like gmail. That's one of the reasons I'm not excited about gmail....

 

[launderess]

Ad Tracking

Get used to it as it's not going anywhere and if anything going to become worse, much worse.

At first it was only the hated "Doubleclick" but now Facebook has it's hooks into almost every website, just look at your browser's "back" button to see all the plug-ins and what not from FP.

Bottom line it is all about marketing and sales of personal information gathered from websites. Free email accounts and websites such as Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail and so forth argue that since they aren't making consumers pay to use their services, the bills must be paid another way.

Facebook and the rest are only valued in the billions because of the vast amount of personal data in their files. With no government standard as to what can be done with such information nor how it's collected FB and the lot are sitting on gold mines. So few persons actually read privacy statements, which is what most website owners are counting on.