Yahoo! Messenger Beta 9

Published 11-08-2007 4:11 PM

 Have you guys tried the new beta of the famous instant messenger?

 Just installed it and I was blown away with the new look! Take a peek:

Nice!

The one above has my favorite skin so far, you have 7 default skins available. Aside from that, there are more emoticons to choose from, which I heard were based from the winners in the previous emoticon contest (But I will have to confirm this).

There are also these new technical features like the media player, which can view Yahoo! video and YouTube video directly on the message window. I could not try it out because all my contacts still use the old YM. This will only work between YM 9 Beta to YM 9 Beta chat.

Since it's beta, there are sure to be bugs/annoyances,  I found 3 (Ohhhh, I love beta testing):

  • Whenever the client is minimized to the tray, then the ads change,  I get out of focus with other applications.
  • When you click a contact, a box pops up immediately, which is a little annoying/distracting.
  • Added on 11.07.2007: When you change skins, the contact search bar re-appears when in the first place you have hidden it. And if you check the settings, it is actually set to hide, but its not.
  • Added on 11.08.2007: When you're chatting with someone, then he/she logouts, there are no visual signs that he/she did (Unlike the old one, you'll see <nick has logged out>), I don't know if this was intended or they just simply forgot. UPDATE 11.21.2007: Weird, in other PCs I've tested it on, this does not occur, on my office PC and others it does? All OSs are XP...

That's all I've found so far.

If you also wanna try it out, fetch the downloader from this address - http://beta.messenger.yahoo.com/ - :D

See ya! 

by modchip
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Comments

# cruizer said on Thursday, November 08, 2007 7:18 PM

weird but i couldn't log in to YM when I use beta 9. but when I uninstall it and use old YM 8.1, it works.

maybe it only works for a few countries? i'm in SG...

# modchip said on Thursday, November 08, 2007 10:53 PM

Hmmm... I suppose it should work everywhere, I have found no complaints about the Beta not allowing you to login, or it being restricted to selected countries... I'll look more into this. ;)

# mike said on Saturday, December 01, 2007 7:06 PM

Same thing happens to me, in the US.  Even created a new id and still can not log in

# Slava said on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:14 AM

I have the same problem with log in. To sign in to Yahoo Messenger Beta I have to open my browser and go to some website and then press "sign-in" button in Messenger.

Seems that your company like mine uses some firewall/proxy. When any application tries to access the Internet, it should perform "NTLM authorization". Internet Explorer does it automatically. But Firefox, for example, doesn't do it but rather asks you for your domain username/password. After performing "NTLM authorization" once, other applications do not need to do it.

Seems that Yahoo Messenger Beta is not aware of NTLM.

# modchip said on Friday, December 21, 2007 10:28 PM

I see there are a lot of people having trouble with this version of YM. :(

# gicos said on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:10 PM

cool

# dangyahoo said on Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:36 AM

I'm having the same problem. I just downloaded using the same connection settings as 8.3, but was not able to login.

# allice_666 said on Sunday, October 26, 2008 7:46 AM

Bida ako ah. haha

# modchip said on Monday, October 27, 2008 5:48 AM

Di ko na isama sa mosaic. Bwahahahahah! *peace!*