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Yahoo! Mail Beta arrives, claims to be at least twice as fast, safer, easier to use
There's an accompanying Yahoo! Developer Network blog post if you want details of the technical changes behind the new Beta. Most notably, Yahoo deployed a bunch of efficient HTTP proxies around the world that significantly speed up connectivity if you're not based near Yahoo's mail servers in the U.S. They also overhauled the rendering of the website itself, utilizing YUI 3, CSS3, and anything else that could reduce the amount of clunky HTML required -- gone are <table> elements!
All in all, the changes make for a much smoother Yahoo Mail experience. A lot of the cruft has been removed -- so much so that it looks a bit like Gmail, but with a "social" landing page tacked on the front. Let's not forget that Yahoo Mail, at least as of last year, owns the U.S. email market -- it's twice the size of Windows Hotmail and almost three times the size of Gmail. This update will affect, in a good way, how the majority of U.S. Internet users send email!
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Subscribe to commentsincense_77Oct 27th 2010 7:08AM
For God's sake guys...this new beta is only available for Firefox, Safari and IE. Let's say that they intend to strike Google by not being compatible with Chrome, by why the heck do they leave out all us Opera users?! What does it take to stop undermining one of the best browsers out there?
ikeasangriaOct 27th 2010 9:40AM
Who says their not compatible with Chrome? I'm using Chrome and have tried all the canary builds as well and see no error. I also used Opera 10 and had no issues, maybe it's not your browser but your computer...
As for the beta, it's alright, the speed is a bit faster and the layout is nicer but wtf create a new login and create account page for christ sake, it's the same ole' 99' build.
incense_77Oct 27th 2010 2:45PM
Tried it with the latest Opera 11 from two different PCs...this is what I get as a response:
Your web browser doesn’t support Yahoo! Mail Beta
Download the latest version of a supported browser for free:
Firefox
Internet Explorer (for Windows)
Safari
...I didn't try it with Google Chrome (Chromium, Canary or whatever), but they didn't seem like they wanted to include Google Chrome anyway.
kellOct 27th 2010 10:09AM
I'd be happy if it just worked. Back when my XP system was new I tried to set up a Yahoo email account. I can't remember the exact circumstances but I never was able to get it accomplished. When I acquired a Win7 laptop last month I decided to set up an email account for it alone. Tried Yahoo again. Nope! Lets me fill everything out choose password, then won't let me sign in. No way to contact anyone for help. Lovely.
blasztaOct 27th 2010 12:26PM
Yahoo! Mail Beta is coming soon
Yahoo! Mail Beta isn't available for you just yet. We’ll get it to you just as quickly as we can.
Meh!