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Join Date: Nov 2001
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I work with an iBook with Mac OS 9.2.1. I've been using Yahoo Messenger 2.5.2 for some time - out of necessity: it's pretty pathetic. Downloaded the new v2.5.3 a few days ago. It installed and opened fine once and then crashed every time I tried to open it again. I trashed the prefs - no help. I reinstalled v2.5.2 - it quits every time I start it up. Any suggestions? Advice needed urgently!
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Download Fire or Proteus (check Macupdate.com). They are multi-service messenger appleications and can connect to Yahoo Messenger.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally posted by MojoRising022:
Download Fire or Proteus (check Macupdate.com). They are multi-service messenger appleications and can connect to Yahoo Messenger.
Yes, but they have difficulties running on OS 9.
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Nasrudin sat on a river bank when someone shouted to him from the opposite side: "Hey! how do I get across?" "You are across!" Nasrudin shouted back.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Good call...i missed the 9.2.1 thing.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2003
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Please check out the .mac forum linked below. A lot of us are having the same problem. And Fire or Proteus programs are also not working according to MacNN today.
Does anyone have the real skinny on this problem??
http://discussions.info.apple.com/[email protected]
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
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i use yahoo messenger (in 10.2.8) ONLY to notify me when i get email (at, duh, yahoo).
hacked it in os9 to play custom music (jimi hendrix or my own music) when i get mail.
the newest version works great for this; faster, hasnt lost it's connection once (the previous version lost connection 10x a day...)
less fussy interface as well!
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"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Originally posted by DigiRob:
Please check out the .mac forum linked below. A lot of us are having the same problem. And Fire or Proteus programs are also not working according to MacNN today.
Does anyone have the real skinny on this problem??
http://discussions.info.apple.com/[email protected]
Aha! Thanks DR. It's back up finally. Yahoo ('we put the mess into') Messenger. What a ghastly hack: I'm using it to talk to someone 3 times a week in an internet cafe in India and you can feel your stomach getting instantly upsetter as each conversation progresses. What we need is a 'Google Messenger.'
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
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Originally posted by DigiRob:
Please check out the .mac forum linked below. A lot of us are having the same problem. And Fire or Proteus programs are also not working according to MacNN today.
Does anyone have the real skinny on this problem??
http://discussions.info.apple.com/[email protected]
wow the people that have posted on there seem so hopelessly addicted to yahoo messenger.
and i can't believe this... despite the amount of people using this sh|tty messenger, yahoo won't do half a decent job to get one on par with the windows version?? pathetic.
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Senior User
Join Date: Nov 2000
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I just posted this over at the Proteus forums
Thread at Proteus Forums
OK.
The problem with Yahoo messenger is quite simply that Yahoo changed their protocol in a more substantial way than people thought they were going to. The way that the client responds to the login request (the various encryption techniques it uses) have been significantly changed from the old version.
Currently NO third party clients support the new Yahoo protocol. The people working on libyahoo2 (the library that all the open source clients use) are still trying to figure out the new authentication method. Once that is figured out, then the library can be updated, and Proteus can be updated to use the new library.
Until the new authentication protocol is deciphered, there is nothing that anyone can do about Proteus' support for Yahoo, and people will have to use the official Yahoo client.
- proton
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