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Yahoo! today released their latest version (v7.0) of Messenger.
I had tried out the beta version during the release and gave them a lot of feedback through their feedback form. Maybe they don’t read their forms, or maybe they didn’t like what I wrote, because I didn’t find anything incorporated in the future betas or this final version.
Yes, you may ask why should they listen to me!?!
The answer is simple because I didn’t ask them to put anything new, but asked them to just keep the old :O
Two main reasons why I didn’t like this release:
1. Text recall feature. Pressing the up and down arrow keys used to recall the previously typed text both in the IM windows as well as the chat room. This was significantly missing in v7
2. Voice Auto-enables in Chat. This is one really really irritating “feature”. Whenever I get into a chat room voice chat is automatically enabled. Despite disabling it, once I change the room the voice gets renabled. What’s even worse is that it keeps throwing up a “Audio Mixer cannot be initialized”. I know I have my drivers installed and everything on my PC in perfect order. Besides, why is this the only application throwing up the error?
Lastly, I do not wish to use any of the voice features of Yahoo! for now and I do not have the option to disable voice.
3. It automatically launching my Mail client to send an email as opposed to letting me choose if I want to use my mail client or to use Yahoo! Mail
I do admit there are quite a few improvements / additions like the Spam Guard (though I don’t like it automatically adding spam ids to the block list).
I guess the main focus of this release has been the Voice call feature, however in the process other things have gotten sidelined. And sadly for me, since it keeps throwing up an error for the voice feature, I simply cannot even test it!
I have already written to Yahoo! Customer Care (their online Help site sucks)
I wrote to Yahoo! Customer Care (their online Help site sucks) and got a very vague reply telling me how I should go about enabling voice and with absolutely no reply to my query. However, their second reply was a little bit more informative and suggested that I should try something else or switch back to v6.0.
Chose the easy way out for now, viz. switched back to v6.0 and will continue to use it until I find a good change in the next release of Yahoo! Messenger.
And if I am forced to upgrade to the latest version (as many a times old versions get no longer supported), I will have no option but to shift to an alternate client like Trillian or Gaim.
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Thanks ang, already gave elite a shot yesterday. Quite a good program I must admit.
For once I had a peaceful chat in Yahoo! without being bothered by bots every single minute.
Have gone ahead and installed YCabby, though I don’t use Cam or voice.
i agree with u that there is no way to disable voice in the 7.0 version of yahoo msgr.But there r still solutions to it as they say nothing is impossible in the world.
U can either use yahelite (the latest versioin is better)or
if u find it difficuilt to use and want to stick to yahoo msgr for its(user friendliness)then disable “audio compression” from:
Add/remove programs>>windows accesories
which u will find in control panel
(this is for win98 users only cos i dunno the proceedure for other versions)
and your problem of auto-enabling of voice will be solved permanentely.Though however u will have to “ok” a msg appearing again and again whenever u join a room which is really irritating but still better then the auto voice enabling feature i guess !!!
seems like i m adverising for yahelite but no yahelite provides u a good level of protection from booters ,voice bombs , spam msgs too. i suggest give it a try!
I already am using Yahelite whenever I wanna get onto a chat room.
An indirect way of disabling voice is to choose the Connection method as Firewall without proxies or others and try which works best.
Haven’t tried is personally because like I said I started using yahelite
Hey Ajay,
U can recall text on Y!7 by the Alt+ ‘up’ or ‘down’ arrow keys.
Hope tht helps, to start with.
Hey Moiz,
Thanks for that vital piece of information. I didn’t even realize there was a change like this.
latest update for elite; voice: if in im or in the room you type voicechat with the on the right end (it wouldn’t let me show the thing as is should be in this post) then a name like what I previously used darn or what ever that will take you instantly to the room for voice that is seperate.
Again type (without the spaces and leave a space then the name of the voice room you want to create and click on it yourself and send it to anyone it is much easier than the /vj thing.
the has has to have no spaces and the symbols on the right and left of the voice chat command are the upper case of the period and the upper case of the comma with the upper case of the comma on the left and upper case of the period on the right with no spaces then a space and what ever room name you want. whew
Hi,
To enable and disable voice in yahoo you can use this program I wrote (yes it annoyed me too!
Yahoo Messenger Voice Chat Toggle
Hope this helps,
– Andy
hi,
do you guys know how to prevent from being ?bomb? when we are in the yahoo chat room?
My notebook always freeze when somebody do that.
Ajay has already suggested a web link but i didn’t find any think to stop these kind of bombs.
Thanks