- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: May 15, 2009
- Total Downloads: 9,795,554
- Downloads last week: 19,965
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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 9.0.0.2160
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 1025 votes
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Version: Yahoo Messenger 9.0.0.2160
Pros: Simple, clear, powerful, well organized.
Cons: I like it all.
Summary: Have been using it forever, 10 plus years. Perfectly planned and executed. You do not nor do you want anything else. Everything is locally held and if you know how to file things it is perfect. I have moved many friends to it. No unecessary and conf... read more >>
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Version: Yahoo Messenger 9.0.0.2160
"i hate the static and the audio breakdown."
Pros: i like the features and is easy to use. love the talking emoticons.
Cons: the audio is very poor most of the time. keep breaking down, can't have a smooth conversation.
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Version: Yahoo Messenger 9.0.0.2160
Pros: nothing really.
Cons: graphics heavy
Summary: The memory in my graphics card on my laptop is only 64mb of ram, and since this is chock full of graphics, I went back to an earlier version, 7.0.
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Version: Yahoo Messenger 9.0.0.2160
"better than earlier versions"
Pros: allows you to stay logged in and not have to re log in every time, especially when you stay logged into the internet
Cons: have not yet found anything wrong with it
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