Yahoo! Messenger - 3.0b192773

3.0b191946 failed on PPC Mac running 10.4.11, but 3.0b192773 is finally working again.

Release Notes show in the built-in updater (they just call this version 3.0 Beta now):

Update to the latest Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 Beta

What's new in this release:
- Fixed compatibility issues with Snow Leopard
- Report a Problem feature, making it easy way for users to submit a problem report to Yahoo!
- Brand new Insider, offering quick access to latest news, weather and email.
- Numerous other bug fixes

As always, we appreciate your feedback. Tell us what you think.

To be clear, I use this crap only because many ignorant but beautiful girls use it and, don't ask me why, seems to have poblems in installyng Skype

They abandoned YM around version 2.5, and this 3.0 beta thing's been going on for almost 2 years. But at least when you compare it to the original 3.0 beta, it's made some progress. There's audio AND video, and can make calls, supports SMS (in some countries) and mobile devices.

Which could not be said for MSN (seriously, no significant new features since version 3.0, or even earlier!?) or AIM, the latter of which has only just been picked back up and still doesn't replicate the feature list of even the 5 year old version 4.7; it took Apple to give Mac users any kind of AIM advancement. And let us not even speak of ICQ; we're approaching 6 years of abandonment - nuff said.

In recent versions I've noticed it's stopped crashing every time I log out or quit, so that's some progress.

So, it may be damning YM with faint praise, but of the major official IM service clients, YM is at least conscious, while the others are in comas or, in ICQ's case, rotting in a drawer in the morgue.

Just briefly, the whole feel of the old version (2.5.3) is friendlier and quicker. The "BUZZ" feature has been added, similar to the Windows version, but you are stuck with the stock sound, unless you provide your own sounds - but not only this, you can no longer customise the existing sounds for friend coming online / message receive etc. whereas this was quickly and easily done on the old version, A step backwards.
On the old version the font appearance could be quickly changed from the dashboard, but no you have to wade thru a menu, and the change wont take effect until you sign out and back in. Another step backward.
I was hoping we were going to see some worthwhile improvements, like the incorporation of the drawing pad featured in the windows version which can be a lot of fun. Or the inclusion of audibles, and certainly the fixing of the bug which causes avatars not to be displayed correctly??

But no .. nothing wothwhile here .. Im sticking with the old version until something enticing comes along

THIS NEW YAHOO! MESSENGER HAS NO USE FOR ME. AUTOMATIC UPDATE IS JUST A WASTE OF SPACE AT MY COMPUTER. SURE YOU CAN INSTALL THE NEW VERSION BUT!! THAT'S ABOUT IT. WEB VERSION KEEPS CRASHING AND JUST #$^E$%^& SLOW!!

CAN YOU SOMEBODY FORWARD ME A LINK OF AN OLDER VERSION.!!