Yahoo! Messenger with Voice 8.0.506 Beta

[Veedems Veteran]

holy **** this thing crashes A LOT for me.

edit: ah, it doesn't like Windowblinds. Had to exclude it from being skinned.

Edited June 25, 2006 by bangbang023

[Boo Berry]

It seems pretty stable so far except the Yahoo ID/Nickname and word filter bugs...

[BlacKat_K]

Yea.. I think so too. Both v7.5 and 8.0 should of been more like 7.1 and 7.2 because of lack of major changes. Yahoo seems almost scared to released major changes UI or otherwise. Now granted the new plugins and the WLM/yahoo interop are pretty big things but they arent UI.. IMHO, major versions like a 8.0 should require major UI changes. Not just a few new icons here and there..

The major change is the annoying ads and the plugins which take too much space and have no obvious purpose.I mean lets look at the 360,buzz,weather or music,we've been using them since version 7 anyway.They were alot better integrated in the program and you didnt need to download anything else.This is the same thing,just more ostentatious.And another thing,BETA crashes like mad!!click anything you want in the program and it'll crash.Furthermore since it has been released,version 7.5 has started crashing too.Yahoo is digging its own grave :angry:

[macmax]

Going back to 7.0.2. Such a big memory hogger. same was the case with 7.5 and so with this beta. Takes around 32MB when signing in and then when i start a chat it goes to 48MB.

Have removed unwanted crap ( yahoo search bar,content tabs etc) still hogs memory

[Tech_Dude_5000]

I remember the last major yahoo update. that was verison 6.0 back in 2004. it featured the Music player, adubles, skins, avartars etc. i forgot how much memory that used but from what i can remember it was n''t that much.

[Boo Berry]

Oh well, the CPU usage means nothing to me. My computer can easily run Yahoo 8. I just want Yahoo to fix the Yahoo ID/nickname bug and the word filter bug.

Edited June 27, 2006 by King Of Chaos

[mancode20]

I agree. They also need to fix the LAUNCHcast bug that I mentioned earlier in this thread.

[illicit]

Going back to 7.0.2. Such a big memory hogger. same was the case with 7.5 and so with this beta. Takes around 32MB when signing in and then when i start a chat it goes to 48MB.

Have removed unwanted crap ( yahoo search bar,content tabs etc) still hogs memory

Same over here.