Yahoo Mail with Opera 10 doesn't work (chat & text)

Yahoo Mail with Opera 10 doesn't work (chat & text)

Yahoo Mail with Opera 10 doesn't work (chat & text)

Anyone here use yahoo mail? I even have a paid account (yahoo mail plus). Just upgraded to Opera 10 and when you go to your yahoo mail page you are missing the "chat & mobile text" box that is normally in between your "folders" and "my folders."

Deleting cookies, id'ing as other browsers, clean install. Nothing works to get that chat box going.

Tried the new yahoo mail interface and that doesn't work either.

Anyone have any ideas?

Originally posted by rif:

Yahoo Mail with Opera 10 doesn't work (chat & text)

Anyone here use yahoo mail?

No replies is bad news.

Isn't anyone here using Yahoo Mail with Opera 10?

I also tried with a "clean" install of 10 and that doesn't work either.

Additional Info

Every aspect of Yahoo Mail works for me. Its only the chat box that doesn't show.

Originally posted by rif:

Originally posted by rif:

Yahoo Mail with Opera 10 doesn't work (chat & text)

Anyone here use yahoo mail?

Not me. I gave up on it years ago when it didn't work. It may be that few Opera users use it.

I have used mostly mail.com, which, with the exception of the wand, seems Opera friendly.

Yahoo Mail opens OK in Opera 10.0 for me, though I don't know about Chat or IM,
as I don't use those.

But Gmail's webmail displays a totally blank, white screen where it should be
displaying the contents of my INBOX (this after logging in OK and watching
the "Loading ..." graphic fill up its progress bar and go away); and the
MSN Live Hotmail webmail interface does a similarly useless thing, again
a totally blank, white screen after login, with nothin' showing (not even
the logout link).

How do I fix this? or revert to 9.64 without destroying my accumulated messages?

Cheers, -- opera-lover (well, I *was*, until now :-{ )

It doesn't work fully...such as attaching of files.

Normal Compose, Replying and viewing emails work though.

@rif, I upgraded to opera 10 on my mac and went to check my yahoo mail with the new yahoo mail interface and all of the content was compressed withing a half inch strip on the left of the screen. I thought I would re-identify with Firefox but still the same result. However, once I unchecked View->Fit to Width all was fine. I didn't check chat or mobile text. I also changed the setting back to identify as opera.

Hi, today I came to Yahoo from Internet Explorer 8 open source community pages to negotiate some license issues about advertising coolest search engine I've experienced first. Ages ago just when I was pupil scholar at a university and "Velvet Revolution" was very fresh and we had just a few crowns to buy a food and roof upon our heads (It took me month and a half to collect money to buy Isaac Asimov's "The Complete Robot") . At that time the truth about world around us and free speech were unknown in my country. (Don't get me wrong, I'm not advertising another browser. I love Opera and I'm it's happy user also since those days. But I also very appreciate the Ms browser and the Chrome browser and you know, Netscape Navigator Gold was a cool cool tool at that time...)

Well, so I came to the Yahoo site to ask them politely some questions, created an account by the way and well, they're so cool as well ! I used to use Yahoo's directory to quickly jump to a topics of my interest, but now! wow!

Anyway, the Opera vs. Yahoo blocking raised already few times in forums and closed as well, I think it is all about "they also deserve some small money for what they're doing - for free". And all the e-mail problems should go away once you buy their Mail+ service. It took me about 2 hours to find out. But once I've found out, I'm happy and really thinking about purchasing their service although I'm now very very happy with g-mail's integration into Opera's revolutionary e-mail client.

And Opera was always fortress of security for me. Now, other browsers also try to keep up. And that Ms browser 8 is... you can also try it for free. But Opera's pack-it-and-go feature is unbeatable for me.

So, I'd suggest you to buy Yahoo's Mail+ service for $2/month and the problems should go away. Problems with POP access inside Opera are already in progress (see another thread in this forum)

Have a nice life "Faber est suae quisque fortunae"

Ahoj, xmojmr, Glad to see you have no serious Opera/Yahoo problems. Must be something non-deterministic or OS-related going on.

But I've encountered quite a few pages where the Opera browser v. 10 just breaks down, while other browsers manage to keep up. The most recent such page is the review at

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/New-Apple-iPhone-Jailbreaking-Tool-Hits-the-Street-539119/?kc=EWKNLWMU09172009STR1 ,

which Opera displays fine as far as it can, and then shows the HTML itself, in garbled form, apparently rendering each byte of a multi-byte Unicode HTML document as if it were a single byte of UTF-8. By way of comparison, IE 7 renders the whole page just fine.

So again I ask: can one successfully re-downgrade Opera v. 10 to v. 9.64 without breaking even more functionality? TIA for any help.

Cheers, a very frustrated (former ?) -- opera-lover

Originally posted by georgec:

I didn't check chat or mobile text. I also changed the setting back to identify as opera.

Everything works fine, it just doesn't get displayed (chat and text menu) in Yahoo Classic Mail.

Originally posted by xmojmr:

So, I'd suggest you to buy Yahoo's Mail+ service for $2/month and the problems should go away. Problems with POP access inside Opera are already in progress (see another thread in this forum)

Actually I do pay $19.99 a year for Yahoo Premium Mail. BUT, that doesn't help the fact that the chat and text menu doesn't display in Yahoo Mail Classic view.

Earlier I noted that Opera 10 was displaying only blank pages when logged in to gMail.

Today I learned (trial & error) that by clicking the "Basic HTML" link that appears at
bottom right while the "Loading..." progress-bar displays, I can get gMail to send a
version of its pages that Opera 10 *can* display.

In that version, alas, there's no longer a "Select All" option available while perusing
the listing of trapped spam messages -- to delete them all I have to put a check-mark
into every single message's check-box -- but maybe that's a small price to pay to be
able to use gMail at all any longer :-) .

Hope this observation helps others. Cheers, -- opera-lover

Originally posted by rif:

Actually I do pay $19.99 a year for Yahoo Premium Mail. BUT, that doesn't help the fact that the chat and text menu doesn't display in Yahoo Mail Classic view.

The simple solution is to not use Yahoo Mail Classic. In the upper right there is an option to use the new Yahoo Mail where the chat works fine.

Yahoo browser sniffs, try masking as IE or FF if you must use classic; though I have not tried this it may work.

The new Yahoo Mail is such a heavy gasworks that one prefers staying on the classic Yahoo Mail.
But it would be nice that Opera updates its browser.js so that the chat works in Opera 10.