Yahoo! Messenger - 2.5.3

After dumping my virus riddled windows computer for a mac, I have to say that the Mac version of Yahoo Instant Messenger is missing a lot of basic functionality that I had on windows.

For one, Why cant I create an alias for my buddies? some of friends have obsure usernames, this should be a basic thing.

Secondly, while I can view others web cams, why cant I talk using my mike and speakers. I mean every G3 Mac + has them built-in I think its a simple ask that the mac version be at least withing coey of the windows one.

Can anyone recommend another client that does have these features on Mac OSX?

J

This version of Yahoo Messenger is buggy. It is a shame they put out such a
software for their users. I have only recently switched from a PC to Mac. I love
everything about my Mac except poor software support. To be fair, I can always
use ichat and talk to my AOL buddies, except I have none. Most of my friends
are on Yahoo and some on MSN. At school, I use OS 9.1 with a previous
version of Yahoo. It has less features but it is certainly more stable. This perticular
version keeps logging me out for no reason. Also, I think it is horrible that
they don't have audio chat on the so-called 'latest' version of yahoo. I wish
ichat worked with Yahoo! instead of AOL. I contacted Yahoo! about audio
chat last week. They say 'We know there is a strong interest from the Mac
community for this feature, but currently we have no schedule for such a
feature'. Ridiculous! I have not paid for any of the Yahoo! services until now,
but I would willingly pay $5 a month if they were offering high-quality
audio-video chat with customer support.

I can't believe that Yahoo would put out a version that is so unstable for Mac OS9 users, and then disallow you to use the older working version. The best way to get them to get their sh*t together is to email yahoo directly about this. You can do this by going to this link and then clicking on the "No" button at the bottom: (replace the tt in the link below)

h**p://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mesg/macmesg/macmesg-01.html

Yeah, same thing. crashing on System 9.

It's locking up on me as well on OS 9.2.2 on an iMac. After thrashing version 2.5.2 in order to install this new useless version, I was able to find and reinstall version 2.5.2 by doing a google search for "Yahoo Messenger 2.5.2" and clicking on the cached link to the Yahoo site that is listed first in the search results. However, version 2.5.2 is now crashing as well. I've tried reinstalling, rebooting, and cleaning out the preferences all to no avail. I hope it's Yahoo's server or their new protocols that are the problem.