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Yahoo! Mail Arrives for Safari 3

Yahoo! Mail Arrives for Safari 3

by , 3:25 PM EST, February 13th, 2008

An all new Yahoo! mail is now available for Safari 3 on Mac OS X, according to Yahoo! on Wednesday. Previously, Mac users were required to use Firefox to access both Classic Yahoo! mail and the new Yahoo! mail.

The support extends to Safari 3 on both Mac OS X 10.4.11 and any version of Leopard, 10.5.x.

"Our guys have been working feverishly to make sure that everything works as intended. Some have even made the occasional trip down the road to "The Mother-ship," said Ryan K., the Community Manager of Yahoo! Mail.

"The rollout is already underway, and we hope to have the updates out to most of you within the next couple weeks. Once it’s completed, folks running the most recent update of Tiger (OS 10.4.11), as well as those using any version of Leopard (OS 10.5.x), will have a version of Safari that plays nice with the All-New Yahoo! Mail. Or maybe it’s a version of Safari that the All-New Mail plays nice with. Either way, they are pals now, and that’s what really matters," said the Yahoo! Mail Manager in his Blog.

"With this Safari 3.0 roll-out, the latest version of the world's most popular Webmail service will be available to an even broader audience of Mac users," according to a spokesperson for Yahoo!

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Close Name:Guest
Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:45 pm Subject: Never had a problem with Safari/Yahoo! Mail

I've never used their "new" mail, but I have routinely accessed their "Classic" mail with Safari since I upped to OS X starting with Panther.

Maybe it's just the "new" Yahoo! mail that had the problems?


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Close Name:DaiMac Posts: 952 Joined: 29 Jun 2001
Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:13 pm Subject:

Never had a problem with new or classic Yahoo Mail in Safari 2 or 3, I use classic mainly because the new UI is fugly, but yeah this is fixing a problem I was unaware of as a relatively heavy user of the service.

Maybe this will address all the Yahoo Messenger and other wider Yahoo features that are PC only, like their Avatar system? Probably not


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Close Name:Guest
Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:16 pm Subject:

I've been using the new version for a while on Safari. Every so often you have to ask the "are you sure you want to use this" question, but it worked fine.


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Close Name:MaxHedrm Posts: 8 Joined: 13 Jan 2003
Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:18 pm Subject:

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Anonymous wrote:
I've been using the new version for a while on Safari. Every so often you have to ask the "are you sure you want to use this" question, but it worked fine.


ooops ... forgot to log in.


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Close Name:Gatesbasher Posts: 1 Joined: 13 Feb 2008
Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:00 pm Subject:

Yahoo Mail works fine under Safari 1.3.2 running Panther, so I'm at kind of a loss to understand exactly what they're talking about....


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Close Name:Guest
Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:46 pm Subject: Not here

I went to My Yahoo and logged in after reading this story.

I got Hmmm…your browser is not officially supported. THe all new Yahoo mail has not been tested etc…

I'm using OSX 10.5.2 Leopard.

Oh well. The reason I stopped using Yahoo email and went to gmail was Yahoo never pushed the email to my iPhones.

Gmail works.


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Close Name:cgrscott Posts: 26 Joined: 09 Oct 2006
Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:29 am Subject: This helps my Clamshell iBook

I am glad Yahoo is officially supporting Safari 3. FireFox and the new Yahoo Mail would not work on my Clamshell iBook running Tiger because the maximum screen resolution of my Clamshell is 800x600 and the New Yahoo mail would not work at the reduced screen depth. It would not work at 800x600 with Safari either and just send me back to Classic Yahoo Mail.

Since the new Yahoo Mail is officially supporting Safari 3, I can get into the New Yahoo Mail with just 800x600 screen depth -- but still not in FireFox.

Yahoo's development team and Safari 3 have brought my Clamshell out of obsolescence.


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Close Name:MediaPhil Posts: 7 Joined: 07 Feb 2007
Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:56 pm Subject: Still not working for me

Can't get past the login, just bounces back. Running 10.5.2.

Back to Firefox.


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Close Name:MediaPhil Posts: 7 Joined: 07 Feb 2007
Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:03 pm Subject: Turned off private browsing, now it works

I usually enable private browsing on Safari. When that is enabled I still can't access Yahoo mail. Must be a cookie thing.


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Close Name:Guest
Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:08 am Subject:

Yahoo is rolling out the fixes so it can take a couple of weeks until you are able to see them, just wait a little bit and try again... I am able to use Safari now and it is sooo fast


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Close Name:Guest
Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:43 pm Subject: Yahoo Avatars on Safari 3.1?

Hi,
I just downloaded the new Safari 3.1 version a couple days ago. Since then, I haven't been able to see my Yahoo avatar when I open my Yahoo Mail (classic, not beta). Can anyone suggest how to fix this?
TF


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