Comments on: New Yahoo Mail not Supported by Opera

By: cool_recep

cool_recep — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:04:37 +0000

Dudes I have solved the problem…

Here is the solution:

http://www.chip.com.tr/forum/konu.asp?TOPIC_ID=28746

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:02:00 +0000

// Yahoo Mail doesn’t work in current versions of Safari, Firefox or Opera. //

Thank you! I haven’t been able to send Yahoo!Mail for two weeks from Firefox. But I haven’t been able to find any fixes on it. Did they make some sort of financial deal with Microsoft to revive IE? Is this racketeering?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:09:00 +0000

Yahoo Mail doesn’t work in current versions of Safari, Firefox or Opera. You have to go into prefs EVERY TIME and disable javascript all together to get far enough into Yahoo Mail to choose the old interface.

That choice is not remembered for future log ins. Yahoo needs to create a seperate log in to the old interface until they get out of this unannounced beta. 5 days and counting… I’m ready to bail on Yahoo.

By: cmadler

cmadler — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:58:00 +0000

Since I have already been having problems with other Yahoo features (My Yahoo page selection, for example) in Opera, Firefox…pretty much anything but IE…I doubt this is ever going to work. Personally, rather than drive me to IE, it is driving me away from Yahoo.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 05:26:00 +0000

It’s not a matter of site A supporting browser B or vice versa. IT’s a matter of everybody suporting standards. The web exists because of open standards. Don’t play MS incompatible “extension” game. Opera doesn’t seem to be always fully compatible with modern standards. If it fails on non standard sites I think that’s a plus, in the long run.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:30:00 +0000

My Yahoo still doesn’t work properly with Opera (or is it vice-versa), and as someone mentioned that’s not the only part of Yahoo that doesn’t, so I wouldn’t hold my breath on Yahoo Mail — or the upcoming Hotmail revamp, either.

I hope the Google rumor mentioned in the v8.5 thread is true, which would combine well with Opera being totally free (without ads), since as an earlier poster mentioned, that would lead to exposure, market share…and ultimately, compatibility on the order that Firefox now enjoys.

There’s really no other choice in the long run, so the sooner the better. Even Firefox is going to feel the heat in the next year or so as MS comes back with a vengeance with IE7, particularly the version in Vista. Fringe players are going to be squeezed.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:07:00 +0000

What was that rant all about?

“It is more important that Opera focus on adding missing functionality like this, than adding BitTorrent support and other non-essential browser enhancements.”

Not sure what BitTorrent has to do with page rendering, but obviously you know exactly how people work at Opera, so the guy working on BitTorrent probably also works on HTML, CSS and JS support at the same time.

Right.

Let’s blow this out of proportions before anyone even knows what’s going on. It’s a closed beta FFS.

By: chetan

chetan — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:04:00 +0000

What features does it require that Opera doesn’t support? Anyone know? I just signed for the beta today so I haven’t been able to play with it yet.

By: Ashis Kumar

Ashis Kumar — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:39:00 +0000

Yea…its a problem!
Opera is neglated by many websites!
The primary cause…..Low market share!

If opera is to compit in the Desktop Browser market….It will have to Go free!
At the present situation people arent in a mood to pay for Opera!

By: FyberOptic

FyberOptic — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:17:00 +0000

This isn’t the only thing Yahoo has broken for Opera users. The local TV listings page displays improperly as of an update they did to it a month or so ago. It aggravates me that an internet giant would be pushing out poor code like this. I even attempted to contact them about it, but since they seem to make it so hard to actually contact someone, I have no idea if they ever saw my complaint.

By: FataL

FataL — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:54:00 +0000

This new design (ala desktop app) of Yahoo Mail is evil! Especially if it will not fall back to simple HTML page.

By: treego14

treego14 — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:29:00 +0000

Good analysis, daniel goldman … compatibility issues for major sites like this are crucial, in my opinion, for Opera’s viability in the future.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:11:00 +0000

Kelson,

Yes, I forgot to mention that. Yahoo still gives users the ability to use the old interface, if their browser is not supported.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:09:00 +0000

I would hope that Yahoo intends to provide fall-back functionality so that people can at least use the service with other browsers.

I mean, most sites I’ve used that have rich HTML editing capabilities will show a plain old textarea if the browser is missing support. It ought to be possible for Yahoo to provide an alternative, stripped-down service.

Of course, I would also hope to see the missing features show up in Opera and Safari!