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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: March 25, 2009
- Total Downloads: 10,112,824
- Downloads last week: 25,260
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1025 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Yahoo Messenger 9 retains all the voice, chat, and drag-and-drop capabilities of its predecessors, and adds a lot more visual pizazz and some key functionality. One biggie feature is contact importing, which scours your other IM, e-mail, and social-networking accounts for friends that are also signed up on Yahoo IM. You can then ask some or all of your friends to add you and can invite others to sign up. Another favorite new trick is the ability to see images and videos displayed inside the chat window when you or a pal drops in a public URL.
Other notable changes include the visual skin picker to switch up the look, and Pingbox, a chat window site owners can embed to chat with visitors in real time. Users should note that the download stub will finish installing the program online, and that the download bundles the Yahoo Toolbar. In the preinstallation window, click over to Custom Install to deselect add-ons you don't want. We could also live without the heavy-handed Yahoo branding, and it would be nice to see a link to hidden smileys in the emoticon drop-down, but these are minor niggles when weighed against the benefits of an easy-to-use, feature-rich chat client that only continues to improve.
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Publisher's description
From Yahoo :Yahoo Messenger is a free service that allows you to see when friends come online and to send them instant messages. It also can alert you to new e-mail in your Yahoo Mail or Yahoo Personals accounts, or when you have upcoming events recorded in your Yahoo Calendar. Yahoo Messenger offers firewall support, a standby mode that minimizes the program until an Internet connection is made, the ability to save and print your conversations, and a tabbed interface that provides quick access to your favorite stocks, news, and sports scores.
Other features include the ability to create a chat room automatically, stock price alerts, the ability to send messages to friends (even if they're not online when you are), a Quick Compact mode that hides the Messenger tools to maximize your viewing area, Messenger Themes, and voice chat, which allows you to talk for free to anybody else on the Internet. It also includes Launchcast Radio, Yahoo Games, and Yahoo Audibles. Using a Webcam, you can see who you're chatting with or view the Webcam of any Yahoo member who has granted you access.
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User reviews of Yahoo Messenger 9.0.0.2152
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 1025 votes
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Version: Yahoo Messenger 9.0.0.2152
Pros: with voice chat when I use it with voice changer software
Cons: nothing to say
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Version: Yahoo Messenger 9.0.0.2152
Pros: So many features and highly accessible.
Cons: Chatrooms full of bots.
Summary: Still best IM service.
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Version: Yahoo Messenger 9.0.0.2152
Pros: Provides instant messaging
Cons: Advertising. Why the hell do I want an advertising banner that NOTHING removes? Believe me, I spent an entire day trying out people's ideas and little utilities and none of them worked. Finally went back to old reliable 6.0.0.1922 (no advertising)
Summary: Why the hell should I want Yahoo Personals advertising crap splashed across the bottom of my instant messenger??? I can shut everything else off that I don't want, why not this blasted advertising?????
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Yahoo Messenger 9.0.0.2152
"I hate this new version...lots up pc and stops writting"
Pros: There are no pros on 9.0 as far as I can tell...who cares about the skins...?? 8.0 you could talk on the phone use web cam ,,etc. nothing is better.
Cons: I hate square smilleys..lol. to much flash or advertizing which eat up your ram. color platea keeps changing back to white and you can not see what your writing. It's really bad. I never have given a bad rating like this one.
Summary: Top of the messenger is black to dark and you have to quess at what your clicking on. If the color black ; if that is what you use to print your message with will go to white and you have to keep going back and resetting it.. there is no lock on it ... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Yahoo Messenger 9.0.0.2152
"Full Standalone Installer 14MB"
Pros: http://download.yimg.com/ycs/msg/dl/msgr9/us/ymsgr900_2152_us.exe
Cons: not so fast code, uses flash inside, banner rotates
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