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How To Join Yahoo Mail Beta By Tricking Yahoo

April 24th, 2006
49 Comments Written by Ryan


How To Join Yahoo Mail Beta By Tricking Yahoo

It is now possible to join Yahoo Mail Beta by changing your content Country to the UK, Germany or France. As soon as you change the setting and return to your email it will ask you to join Yahoo Mail Beta. Make sure you change your content preference and NOT the country for your address.

How to change your content preference:

  1. Login to Yahoo Mail.
  2. Select Mail Options.
  3. Select Account information from the left panel.
  4. Go to Member Information > General Preferences > Preferred Content.
  5. Select Yahoo UK.
  6. Select Finished.
  7. Go to Yahoo Mail.
  8. A page will be displayed that says “It’s the New Yahoo! Mail Beta… and you’re invited.”
  9. Click on “Try Beta Now”.
  10. You can then change your Preferred Content setting back to normal by repeating the steps above.

This has worked for many people so make sure you do it before it gets fixed by Yahoo.

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  1. April 24th, 2006 at 2:54 pm Anonymous Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Still works as of 4PM EST.

  2. April 24th, 2006 at 2:59 pm Anonymous Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Nice! Ironically, its from the GOOGLE operating system blog!

  3. April 24th, 2006 at 3:01 pm Ryan (Author) Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Yeah, it is pretty funny that the Google Operating System blog is the one who found it.

    -Ryan

  4. April 24th, 2006 at 3:06 pm Inferno_str1ke Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Well, I’m sure Yahoo won’t be happy, and who better to revel in that than Google. Though I guess they’re probably above such things.

  5. April 24th, 2006 at 3:13 pm Matt Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Not that I want to try it but if you switch it back to Yahoo US will it revert your account back.

  6. April 24th, 2006 at 3:17 pm Pierre Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    the beta is also offer when you have a canadian account on yahoo mail

  7. April 24th, 2006 at 3:18 pm Nicholas Ochiel Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Sweet…. It still works. Strangely, it seems to crash Firefox 2 every single time. I hope Opera will be able to load it.

  8. April 24th, 2006 at 3:19 pm Ryan (Author) Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Yes, you can switch your account back to the Yahoo US without it going back to Yahoo Mail. This is the last step stated in the instructions.

    -Ryan

  9. April 24th, 2006 at 3:58 pm Marcus Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    When I logged onto my Yahoo account a few days ago, it asked me if I would like to try their new Mail service, and I must say, it’s pretty cool! I’m from Canada….so I guess theyre inviting people to join now?

  10. April 24th, 2006 at 4:03 pm Anonymous Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    The beta doesn’t work well at all with a mandatory large font size (I have my Mozilla “minimum font size” set to 22 points). Apparently many elements of the user interface are specified in absolute sizes, which is an amateurish mistake that neither the “non-beta” Yahoo Mail nor GMail make.

    The beta interface’s inability to work with large font sizes even obscures the “Switch Back” link–how cute. If the final version of this new UI continues to suck so badly, I’ll abandon Yahoo Mail after many years as a satisfied user.

  11. April 24th, 2006 at 5:41 pm ST Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Doesn’t let you log in with the Safari browser. However it will work with Camino, though it will warn you the browser is not supported.

  12. April 24th, 2006 at 7:15 pm Jason Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    HOLY CRAP!!! IT STILL WORKS AT THE TIME OF THIS COMMENT!

    Thanks so much for the news, Ryan!

  13. April 24th, 2006 at 8:21 pm Anonymous Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Still working at 21:15 Eastern time, US.

  14. April 24th, 2006 at 8:37 pm Chad Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Doesn’t seem to work if you use sbc yahoo dsl, the opetions are different. =(

  15. April 24th, 2006 at 8:56 pm Duncan Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    It didn’t work for me ;-(

  16. April 24th, 2006 at 9:48 pm Irene Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Just worked for me using Yahoo United Kingdom.

  17. April 25th, 2006 at 2:29 am Darren Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    I wouldn’t waste your time. It’s ridiculously slow to load.

    Can I roll back please ???

  18. April 25th, 2006 at 5:05 am Duncan Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Do I log back to Yahoo Mail before clicking on Accept in the TOS screen?

  19. April 25th, 2006 at 6:25 am Markus Merz Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    The Firefox crashes with Y! mail beta are gone with FF 1.5.0.2. In 1.5.0.1 there have been some strange issues with AdBlock (and the normal Yahoo Mail).

    And yes, it’s loading very very slow and you can switch back to the old version.

  20. April 25th, 2006 at 9:28 am Ryan (Author) Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    If you want to switch back to the old interface simply select the “Switch Back” link located near the “Yahoo Mail Beta” logo in the upper right corner.

    -Ryan

  21. April 25th, 2006 at 10:32 pm broken simulacra Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Thanks for sharing this! I’ve just switched content from Australia to UK as instructed, and the invitation is still open.

  22. April 26th, 2006 at 6:19 am zonovo Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Most of these AJAX heavy sites take a lot of time to load the first time you load the page on your browser. The 2nd time onwards the loads are much faster, because many of the files get cached by the browser.

  23. April 26th, 2006 at 3:00 pm zonovo Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Sweet^^

  24. April 28th, 2006 at 5:34 am raj Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    wowh its very good…

    But I am missing some options like Addresses, where in present version I can categorise the Ids adn make some lists so that I can send one mail to many persons just using the list name.

    If u cna add this feature to it , It works well for me.

    Bye

  25. April 28th, 2006 at 11:24 am Borhan Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    But it didn’t occured for me. I did n’t get the beta mail option.

    I’ve found only my Yahoo Mail logo changed to
    Yahoo Mail Uk & Ireland. Nothing more. No option for Beta………

  26. April 29th, 2006 at 6:07 am Rezwan_ TOKON Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    ITS GREAT!!!! MAILS R MORE EASY FOR READ…….

  27. April 30th, 2006 at 8:33 pm pdawir Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Goood but it’s more slowly

  28. April 30th, 2006 at 11:29 pm Ryan (Author) Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    It is quite a bit slower which is disappointing to me. It is definitely not enough to pull me from GMail!

    -Ryan

  29. May 3rd, 2006 at 3:22 pm Anonymous Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    I have it too….

  30. May 4th, 2006 at 10:56 pm Herry Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    If you are not redirected to the page that says “It’s the New Yahoo! Mail Beta… and you’re invited.” (step 8), you can manually go to the url below.

    http://uk.f342.mail.yahoo.com/dc/beta_welcome

    replace f342 with fxxx (3 digits number) in your address bar. The number are auto generated.

  31. May 7th, 2006 at 4:03 am Anonymous Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Hi! It is great. But, too slow in loading. Appearnce is good and easy to read mails. Thanks to assist us to get the service. Good Job. Keep it up.
    K. Mohamed Hussain

  32. May 7th, 2006 at 6:58 am Mike Fisher Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Awesome. I’ve stopped using gmail ENTIRELY thanks to yahoo beta! And they *actually* respect user privacy unlike evil gmail

  33. May 20th, 2006 at 6:15 pm Anonymous Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Woah, its still working, and it doesn’t switch back when I change my prefered content to US

  34. May 28th, 2006 at 10:45 pm Alfredo Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    It works! THANK YOU!

  35. May 29th, 2006 at 2:26 am Ryan (Author) Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    No problem, enjoy it. I have had a lot of issues with it and Firefox and I have switched back to the “standard” Yahoo Mail.

    -Ryan

  36. May 29th, 2006 at 5:41 pm Alfredo Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Have you had problems with it? I’m using it and so far it’s OK, hope to have none problems in the future.

    I have even “discovered” a link that let you try the new Yahoo Mail no matter where your account is registered:

    http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

    I have tried with two of my Yahoo Mail accounts and it works, both of them were registered with an address in southamerica where I reside.

    Regards!

  37. May 29th, 2006 at 5:47 pm Alfredo Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Forgot to mention that you have to select the “Try it Now” button ;)

  38. June 2nd, 2006 at 3:06 pm Joan Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Nice Alfredo, it worked too! Thanks

  39. June 3rd, 2006 at 10:00 pm Krueg Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Thanks

  40. June 7th, 2006 at 9:30 pm Ashley (Author) Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Glad this trick is still working for everyone!

    - Ashley

  41. August 23rd, 2006 at 4:03 am Anonymous Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    I’ve tried this Beta version by clicking “Try it now” somewhere at the end of the mail my friend sent me. Just have to wait a few days. However, its loading is just toooooooooooooo slowwwwwwwww so I switch back. I think Yahoo must do sth more to it before it become official.

  42. September 3rd, 2006 at 11:13 am nesrincgm_nesrin Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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  43. September 3rd, 2006 at 2:15 pm ffextensionguru (All-Star) Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Still works. The site can be slow at time compared to the Classic Yahoo!Mail. Will take some getting use to as did the beta version of the Maps.

  44. September 7th, 2006 at 9:44 pm ffextensionguru (All-Star) Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Just too darn slow to load so switched back to classic which also seemed to reduced the amount of memory Firefox was using drastically.

  45. November 14th, 2007 at 5:35 pm iCeg0d Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    thanks for that info ryan..i actually had a hard time changing my mail account back to beta..thanks!(’:mrgreen:’)

  46. June 30th, 2008 at 8:52 pm Anonymous Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    On yahoo classic all you have to do is click on “All New Mail” in the in the top-right corner and it will automatically switch to the BETA version.

  47. August 22nd, 2008 at 3:46 am Anonymous Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Quite an easy way out of mail classic

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