Yahoo's New E-Mail Beta - Far From Perfect
September 22nd, 2006 Posted in Main Page, Uncategorized, Web 2.0
I've been a Yahoo Mail beta user for the past couple of months. Although I really like the Outlook-like look and feel, it's far from perfect. For one, it seems to be a system hog. I can't you tell many times, I've had to wait for the inbox to load - during which it is difficult, if not impossible, to switch to another browser tab within Firefox. As well, the newest iteration somehow decided to no longer include my rogers.com e-mail address, even though it's the default account. It's a mystery because the rogers.com account was alive and well two weeks ago. As a result, I have to go back to the original Yahoo Mail service to use my rogers.com account. Looks like there is a bug in the beta.
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:44 am
I've been using the Beta for a month or two and have seen the same problems. I have yahoo IM so I get notified when a new email arrives but often it takes a few minutes for the mail to arrive in my inbox. Like yourself, I've found myself switching back many times.
September 22nd, 2006 at 11:04 am
I have similar issues with Yahoo Mail and Firefox. I wonder, though, if it is related to Firefox as I often get script is running slow warnings on other sites as well, typically when I have other applications running.
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:16 pm
I switched back to the old Yahoo Mail as soon a I discovered it doesn't support the Yahoo Business Mail which we use for our company. It looked nice for the breif moment I had it.
October 2nd, 2006 at 4:44 am
Guys..what can you expect from a beta version?its still need more development and as yahoo's user, we should give Yahoo good input to improve their mailservice…