yahoo webmail improvements

I've been playing with Yahoo's new outpost-based webmail application in today's Firefox 1.5 branch nightly build and so far things are looking really, really good. It's snappy. It feels like a desktop app. The tab implementation is pretty slick, and so is the new folder implementation I think I'm ready to move back to Yahoo! for my webmail. This is really nice stuff. Congratulations to all the people working on this.

Posted by asa on September 14, 2005 3:04 PM

reactions, thoughts, comments, etc.

From the screenshots I've seen it looks really good. Unfortunately the beta is only open to U.S. users... :(

Posted by: Rishi | September 14, 2005 3:35 PM

How does one get to the beta?

Posted by: vfwlkr | September 14, 2005 4:13 PM

I logged into my yahoo mail account and then clicked "What's New" then there was a "join the beta test" link. Then they're supposed to contact me.

Posted by: Mark | September 14, 2005 4:43 PM

Those screenshots do look pretty slick. I can't wait until the beta is more publicly available; it might just get me to cancel that eventual plan of moving away from Yahoo Mail!

Posted by: sunilonln | September 14, 2005 5:03 PM

Yahoo abuses human rights in China; because of its policies some poor schmuck will probably get executed for 'dissident' behavior.

You and the Mozilla Corporation, with its newfound love of Benjamins, might be willing to overlook this, but I am not.

BOYCOTT YAHOO!

Posted by: Graham | September 14, 2005 5:58 PM

Operating in China, Yahoo and everyone else is under China law; they were directed to cooperate with the authorities in disclosing the indivdual.

Posted by: Billy | September 14, 2005 6:43 PM

As I understand it, what happened did happen in Hong Kong and Yahoo wasn't forced to obey Chinese Law. Well, show me a company that doesn't help China ... Google, Microsoft, Daimler-Chrysler, everybody ...

Back to topic: Where can I find some screenshots of the beta?

Posted by: testboy | September 14, 2005 11:44 PM

>Where can I find some screenshots of the beta?
http://patcavit.com/2005/09/14/y-mail-beta-impressions/

Posted by: Gids | September 15, 2005 1:34 AM

@Jemaleddin,

Check the comments in that article. An astute reader was able to solve Eric's problem by adding {float: none;} to his print CSS.

Posted by: Hass | September 15, 2005 7:34 AM

Yeah, well, they could work on their other Yahoo mail first. You cannot compose html based email using Firefox, only with IE 5.5 and up, because it pops up some kind of toolbar.

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/send/send-28.html

Posted by: wayneo | September 15, 2005 8:50 AM

Hmm, I might take that back. Maybe that _is_ what they are doing with this beta (but someone who has access should make sure that the html mail composition toolbar works in FF).

Posted by: wayneo | September 15, 2005 9:30 AM

Seriously, if haven't been using gmail by now. well, go sleep under the rock ;)

Posted by: For fun | September 15, 2005 11:42 AM

So, will we be getting a tabbed Thunderbird anytime soon? (nudge, nudge)

Posted by: MarbleheadMan | September 15, 2005 12:59 PM

or you can use thunderbird ;)

Posted by: neorser | September 15, 2005 3:56 PM

Have you seen this extension?
http://firefox.viamatic.com/
(comes either as a seperate extension or as a greasemonkey script)

it basicly adds ajax wizardy to the current webmail interface - I use it alot.

Posted by: Ido | September 16, 2005 7:51 AM

from the screen shots, it seems like they still have no interface to select encoding, and no interface to set directionality. not everyone use the latin charset, or even write from left to right!

Posted by: tsahi | September 17, 2005 1:28 PM

I have the new Yahoo mail beta!

Oh man is this slick!

This is going to be a big hit! Very quick. Very snappy.

marlboro_me.

Posted by: marlboro_me | September 23, 2005 3:32 PM