You no longer have to trick Yahoo in order to test out their new Mail Beta which embraces the Web 2.0 functionality that many websites are starting to converge to. In order to activate Yahoo Mail Beta you will have to go to this site. It only takes a few clicks to start using it and I found the bouncing guy to be pretty amusing (he is displayed while your mailbox is loading).
Yahoo Mail Beta seems to run faster than when I had previously used it and works great in Firefox. It is also really nice not having to wait for a new page to load each time you are viewing another message. The tabs make it really easy to switch back and forth between viewing and composing an email. However, I just don’t feel like everything loads as quick as I would like.
I’m sure there will be a lot of people who love using it but I am still stuck on the clean, simple, and organized interface that GMail provides me. Yahoo Mail Beta will definitely be a success since Yahoo has so many users that already use their service, but I think a lot of the tech savvy people will still be addicted to GMail. Do we have anyone out there that is converting from GMail to Yahoo Mail?
I never get used with label system from GMail, even if I use GMail daily, not Yahoo. The computer is using folders, so I am really used with folders. I have to admit that this “folder vs label” issue make me a lot thinking what to choose. Now I will have to try the new Yahoo. Too bad they do not allow POP3 again…
It took me a long time to get used to the labels but I eventually started to love them even more than folders. That way I can put multiple labels on emails so that they can be easy to find.
I saw the option today and though it looked different. I liked it prior, but it was slow and caused my Firefox 2.0 memory usage to go through the roof. I’ll give it a try, haven’t crashed this nightly of Firefox yet!
Yahoo beta won’t work for me in Bon Echo 2.0a though it does in Firefox 1.5. Of course it works in I.E.7 but so do all the Flash ads.
I’ve had Gmail for awhile & I’m just recently paying more attention to it. Familiarity is a big thing.
That is just funky, works for me fine in Bon Echo 2.0b2 Nightly (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060914 BonEcho/2.0 ID:2006091404).
I wonder when the day will come when you no longer have folders just labels, that would be pretty good.
I think it will come sooner than you expect because it seems like everything is going to “tags,” and labels are essentially the same thing. It would definitely be hard to get used to not having folders in Windows though.
Have been using Yahoo! Beta for well over a few months now. I don’t know how they upgraded my account to it, but well no complains.
Only problem I did notice is that the initial loading does take some time. However, future loads are faster since most of it is in your browser cache already.
Their interface is definitely a lot better than Gmails, though I do think they should maintain the plain interface always (as they do now, you have an option of switching)
Well it looks pretty nice but I won’t be switching from gmail since I’ve got used to it and I use mostly thunderbird instead of website, expect when checking mail from school.
After few days of testing and working with new Yahoo! Mail I have to say that it works, it really works. And I cannot say that I “feel” the graphics ads of Yahoo! while I do not “feel” the text ads of Google – maybe if you are on dial-up this can matter, for me it’s the same. I think that now GMail has to work a little more, for drag and drop and other ideas from Yahoo! Mail.
I much prefer a label system to a folder system – I think the way to do it in Windows would be to have buttons at the top of an explorer window to switch between drive hierarchy and label view. Either that or have things still fitted into folders, but then labelled within those folders.
Sadly due to previous popularity and the fact that many English BT subscribers end up using Yahoo mail it will get quite a following. Still, Google mail owns and all the clever people know that.
It will be quite a brilliant idea to see a Windows Explorer clone using labels system! While I pretend I know softwares and digg all day long for them, I do not know any Explorer-like-program to use the ideas of labels. Do you/anybody know? (Sorry for being off-topic.)
i can no long compose on my yahoo.mail except on yahoo beta. can you pls log me in on yahoo beta. thanks. solape
They are still limiting a few select countries so yours might be one of them. You might still be able to [tech.cybernetnews.com] into letting you use Yahoo Mail Beta.
regiter me in this yahoo beta
hi out there was there a lottery ever happened from yahoo beta mail got an email saying i won such amount , is this really true?