A while back Yahoo! promised to continue to improve support for Firefox and they've just made another major leap forward with Firefox support for Yahoo! Avatars.
I take great pride in the work we've done to create and distribute a browser that web developers and web companies want to support. Thanks to everyone over at Yahoo! for helping to build a cross-browser web.
Posted by asa at June 10, 2005 11:28 AMGood. Maybe they'll eventually add support for Firefox at launch.yahoo.com.
Posted by: Gabe on June 10, 2005 11:50 AMFinally, even after they said they said they would make a firefox toolbar but took them months for them to come through with.
Posted by: Alex on June 10, 2005 12:00 PMThe ability to edit Yahoo mail filters in FireFox will hopefully come soon as well.
Posted by: Racer on June 10, 2005 01:28 PMYes, but doesn't support any other OS than windows. Yay for the "good-enough to shut them up" fix!
Posted by: Kroc Camen on June 10, 2005 01:28 PMOn Launch and Firefox...
Yeah, we know.
We know.
WE KNOW.
It's the single biggest Firefox complaint internally too. Seriously.
Posted by: Jeremy Zawodny on June 10, 2005 01:33 PMI just tried creating an Avatar and it didn't work, either in Deer Park or Firefox 1.0.4 (both on Win2K). The little 'preview your avatar' window never updated no matter what I clicked on.
Does this thing actually _work_ with Firefox, or did they just take off the JavaScript that blocks FF at the door? ;-)
Posted by: Jason Lefkowitz on June 10, 2005 01:38 PMNo Firefox support for me on http://avatars.yahoo.com.
On my Mac Mini / 10.3.9 / FF 1.0.4:
We're sorry, Yahoo! Avatars doesn't currently support your operating system and/or browser.
To use Yahoo! Avatars, you need:
* Microsoft Windows operating system
* One of these browsers:
o Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher,
o Netscape Navigator 7.2,
o Mozilla Suite 1.7.6,
o Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 or higher
* Macromedia Flash Player 7.0.19 or higher
We may support other platforms in the future. Please check back.
Posted by: pepp5 on June 10, 2005 03:11 PMMaybe it's just me, but I can't see the difficulty in creating an avatar system that works on any browser on any platform.
What part of this system is Windows specific? Presumambly it's drawing on something that Windows has and Mac OS hasn't?!
Honestly, I'm really not seeing how these services can't 'just work' on any platform/browser combo. The same goes for Launch. It's a music video service, right? I can view any site that displays mpeg/wmv/mov/avi files in Firefox, so what's the difference with Launch?
I'm obviously missing something here.
Posted by: Mr Lizard on June 10, 2005 03:41 PMI'm sitting in my hotel and I was able to change my avatr vithin FF no problem.
Posted by: Hahnarama on June 10, 2005 03:51 PMYeah, they better change launch to be more compatable with all browser. :D
By the way their toolbar is clearly spyware.
Posted by: Jmack on June 10, 2005 04:25 PMI didn't work after i changed the user string to opera just to see what would happedn and then went back to default and it still had teh same error.
I guess there changing for the good
Posted by: gy on June 10, 2005 06:53 PMJason Lefkowitz: I had the same problem with the preview window not working. Then I turned off Adblock and it worked fine. Disable Adblock (if you have it) or any other page modifying extensions (Greasemonkey, RemoveItPermanently, Platypus, etc) and then try it again.
Posted by: John Reyst on June 10, 2005 09:47 PM:D you can use my greasemonkey script (pkLaunch) for Yahoo! Launch.
Posted by: Pooya Karimian on June 10, 2005 11:10 PMDoes not work for me , get javascript errors :-(
Error: plugin.SetWindow is not a function
Thanks John, that did the trick. Fun with extensions! :)
Posted by: Jason Lefkowitz on June 11, 2005 02:42 AMI am running adblock, and I did not have to dusable anything. It still works on my end. Of course it's not a big deal since I use Trillian 99% of the the time.
Posted by: Hahnarama on June 11, 2005 05:27 AM