Optimize Mail by updating that older Toolbar
- Posted November 27th, 2007 at 12:01 pm by Ryan
- Categories: General, Tips & Tutorials
Recently there was some chatter over in the Y-Mail Group about some messaging that urges users to update their Toolbar to make Mail faster. I’m guessing that some of you folks may have seen the message too, so it’s probably worth commenting on here as well.
First and foremost, this does not mean that you have to have Yahoo! Toolbar in order to use Yahoo! Mail. Nor does it mean that we are only giving faster service for people using Toolbar.
What it does mean is that the Toolbar team has been working hard to streamline how the Toolbar works. And if you aren’t using the leaner, meaner, version you may not be enjoying the best experience possible with Mail.
Now you should only be seeing the message if you are ALREADY using Toolbar, but are using an older version. If you aren’t already a Toolbar user, but are seeing this message anyway, let me know so I can find out why and get that fixed.
Ryan K.
Community Manager
Yahoo! Mail
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- 92 Comments
November 27th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
its good
November 27th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Wonderful news!! Now if they could only get the Yahoo toolbar to consistently load when I start my yahoo… rather than the occasional (as in “even as I speak”) loading of a generic toolbar that has none of my items on it. Yahoo marches on…. and right off a cliff.
November 27th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Please fix this Yahoo toolbar problem, it has been going on for 2 to weeks 3! “ERROr 0×5″ “Not able to update, check your internet connection”
November 27th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
I cannot comment on the new toolbar because when I click on the “Update Yahoo! Toolbar now” on the http://ymailupdates.com/blog/?p=143 webpage nothing happens.
Pete
November 27th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
i do not know if i a using old or new but yahoo is definatly mess something up it continually says i have 5 new emails i do notbothin mail and on messanger system is slower i type in on messanger -there is apause in printing out etc -please let me know
November 27th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
please help me i need my old Email back i can not read my mail now PLEASE HELP ME i dont like the new one, maybe its because iam 60 years old
November 27th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Im with Edwin I can not check my mail half the time without interuptions saying try again later or some sort of difficulty!! please fix that & another thing now that I upgraded (so 2 speak) it doesn’t allow me to view the new layout
November 27th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
I am not able to delete, send, reply, or anything for that matter. What’s going on?
November 27th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
hello
i cant delete , send , forward, reply on my tool bar ..what is wrong with my mail. please fix it asap, thank you
November 27th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
NOTHING HAPPENS WHEN I CLICK ON UPDATE TOOLBAR PLEASE HELP HELP HELP HELP THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND COOPERATION
DES
November 28th, 2007 at 3:12 am
I can login but nothing happens when I open my email.
Only the address section downloads but the content of the email does not download.
I had this problem for a few days.
Please rectify asap as I can not access my email.
November 28th, 2007 at 4:05 am
I’ve got the toolbar installed, b/c it came pre-installed on my work computer. I don’t use it, tho. I would really, REALLY like an option to tell this screen to go away, and, more importantly don’t ask me again.
Is that do-able?
November 28th, 2007 at 4:49 am
Please help me out here! I’m with the guys who can’t delete, send, forward, reply etc on my mail.
Thanks
November 28th, 2007 at 4:58 am
i need my old email back
November 28th, 2007 at 5:59 am
I think I will pass on the new toolbar - seems like complaints are running about 10-1, must be like Vista.
November 28th, 2007 at 6:29 am
PLEASE PLEASE put the old version back in place .nothing works. I hate it. if not I’ll get rid of Yahoo. I can’t retreive Ancestry and othe genealogical web sites.
Betty
November 28th, 2007 at 6:38 am
Like the new picture, ryan. You’re quite the cutie.
November 28th, 2007 at 6:40 am
I dumped the Yahoo toolbar because it would not load properly often displaying a generic toolbar. Sometimes it would only display a few icons. Clearly, this is a problem with the server on Yahoo’s end. Until Yahoo is willing to invest in reliability, and decent spam blocking, all you are going to hear about is the grief your firm is causing users rather than the praises of satisfied customers. Look up the work customer. Study it.
November 28th, 2007 at 7:08 am
How do I update the Yahoo toolbar since I didn’t when first offered ?
November 28th, 2007 at 7:12 am
Sometimes its best to leave well enough alone. I find that everytime there is a Update… it just seems to take away what was better or more fun to use and becomes more complicated and boring to use.
Vineofwine
November 28th, 2007 at 7:50 am
I use the yahoo mail at work and I am unable to download anything new onto my computer. So therefore I am unable to download the new toolbar.
My yahoo mail has been terrible since it changed from “beta” to the “all new email”. (I know they are the same). The name just changed.
The beta worked perfectly for me and then it all of a sudden stopped.
The classic is working some of the time…but I prefer the other. Its easier and better looking. Please consider the people that can’t make updates to their computers.
Thank you.
November 28th, 2007 at 7:54 am
Please tell me how I can return to the old email site as everything takes so long to access and i can`t add a new folder as I used to.I don`t need news updates or anything else just something that works efficiently and quickly.
November 28th, 2007 at 8:55 am
foxfire will not update to the newer version. ie7 does and works fine, but foxfire is the better browser. get with foxfire to get the new version to work right. Don
November 28th, 2007 at 10:51 am
How do you kill your yahoo e-mail account that doesn’t work?
November 28th, 2007 at 11:15 am
I can’t use e-mail at all. please fix back the way it was before. thank you.
November 28th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Did Don mean Firefox rather than foxfire? I use Firefox Yahoo Toolbar version 1.4.1, which apparently is already up to date. Everything works fine for me.
November 28th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
hello everybody !!! Have a good time
November 28th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
please give me the classic e-mail we had although I , i can go into it once I open the new one , BUT what a waste of time. The old one was so much easier to read. tks for whatever help is forthcoming.RR
November 28th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
I fell for the update and now I can’t get into my e-mail, I use it all the time but it is pre-set by our computer person. Bad timing as I am in need to a lot of people as we are to move. Try to warn people bout the upgrade next time as it has been costly for me already.
November 28th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
From the other comments, the scripted links to the New Mail server may still be buggy; the links from the New Mail module on cm.my.yahoo.com have worked perfectly with Y! Mail Classic to date (the only annoyance being the Open New Window default on these links, but both Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.10 and MS-IExplore 7.0.6000.16544 have different Open Options from the right-click submenu). Do check for remaining bugs in the new Y! Mail software that might be complicating things.
November 28th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
I am hoping this will be an addition to what I am allready happy with system of communication. email and yahoo have been my entertainment for the entire time I have been online, thanks.
November 28th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
I couldn’t actived on yahoo web page
November 28th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
I have a question and im not sure where to post it at. so ill try here. i have a problem with my yahoo mail. I contacted yahoo and I dont think they read it becuz they just told me to do what i already told them ive done. my yahoo mail isnt in my add and remove programs anymore and now i cant click on any links to get to my yahoo mail. i went to internet options and it is not in the drop down list. i pgraded my IE and reinstalled the yahoo toolbar and I even uninstalled and reinstalled yahoo messenger twice…and its still not there. I dont know what else to do…help!!! Thx
November 28th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
it’s nice. more costomers will surely get a quality service.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:31 am
I’m told to update the toolbar- a newer version for IE7.All efforts tell me I must be an administrator to update.I am.It’s a home computer.Bt Help tell me go to Microsoft who tell me it’s a Dell problem.Had enough.Too much stress to use the site.
November 29th, 2007 at 1:29 am
I really enjoying now much better!
November 29th, 2007 at 3:33 am
I have had email on my home page for some time now. It used to be there but now I can only find ot online, I cannot put it back on my home page. I wish to hell y’all would help me get it back where it was: on my home page, and easy to navigate. The only thing that didn’t change in the last few years, now has & I can’t get there any more
November 29th, 2007 at 3:37 am
The new tool bar is so good and thanx for this wondferful service
November 29th, 2007 at 6:04 am
I’ve been avoiding doing the “upgrade” to the new yahoo and then I finally chanced it, and its a disappointment. I can’t forward anything, its non-responsive. I really prefer the older version. Forget about the toolbar upgrade, non-responsive as well. Help please fix this problem!!!
I WANT MY YAHOO !
November 29th, 2007 at 6:40 am
its good and nice too.
November 29th, 2007 at 9:17 am
I can see my emails but nothing else works. I can’t create a new one, can’t reply, nothing is working. Not lovin the new toolbar.
November 29th, 2007 at 9:27 am
I can’t able to access my old email box
November 29th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
What a bunch of whiners here in the comments section!
If you don’t like the newer Yahoo Mail interface, just push the “Mail Classic” button in the top left corner of the main mail screen. Duh!
I think the new Yahoo Mail is an amazing technological achievement — kudos to the Yahoo team! Love the toolbar too. Keep up the good work.
November 29th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Ban ALL toolbars. Clutter Clutter CLUTTER. UGH.
November 29th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
i CAN’T OPEN MY YAHOO EMAIL IN THIS COMPUTER
November 29th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
The new email system is ‘prettier’ but technically, functionally and from an efficiency point of view is far worse than the older, uglier, but faster Yahoo! mail.
Moral of the story, younger and pretty is not always better
November 29th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
I am glad to see that many others are having trouble with yahoo mail because I have sent numerous emails for tech support only to have the response be they can’t duplicate my problem but it seems others are experiencing the same problems. I downloaded the new toolbar as instructed, I updated my yahoo home page to the new one and now nothing works!!! I loved the beta mail but this is ridiculous. I don’t know how long we can wait for these problems to be fixed.
November 29th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
to be perfectly honest, I have no idea what has happend. Everbody that i talk to doesn’t seem to know what I’m talking about.All I know is that I cannot access my mail. It has been reported to me that a non yahoo software has modified my mail page therefore it cannot launch( whatever that means). Like all the others, I too would seriously appreciate some kind of assistance, but I can’t read my mail. Thank you very much.
November 29th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
1-Yahoo!ToolBar is Great.I use it since long time.
2-However due to these incessant messages I downloaded the latest!!Then….
3-IE does not open webs now on new tabs.
4-FF does not save bookmarks.I Should go to IE
to save it.
November 29th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
I wish I had seen this area before I had an IT guy come and try to fix my problem with my email thinking it was my computer. Everything mentioned here are the problems I have been experiencing - wouldn’t load up, won’t delete, won’t upload pics,. After 4 hours of his work on my computer - yahoo mail still didn’t work for me with constant error messages. I know I needed to have the maintenance work done for better overall performance of my old computer but the frustration I/we had with yahoo mail was the worst. Now I go immediately to “trouble loading?” and click onto classic mail and no problems. Why?
November 29th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
can u improve the calendar like how it works with hotmail?
November 29th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
I am not able to delete, reply, or forward emails since switching to the “new version” of yahoo toolbar. Nor am I able to switch back to the former version. Please help ASAP.
November 29th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
“Mail Classic” button is not working, I need my old yahoo back please. Nothing is working in the new toolbar, I have important mails to send.
November 29th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Whenever I try to update yahoo anti-spy on my toolbar, I keep getting “An error has occurred when checking for updates ox5. Check internet connection”. My connection is fine though and I used to be able to update this all the time.
November 30th, 2007 at 1:19 am
Please I would like to re-update my mail back to the old apearance coz for this new method I cant read well my mails thanx
November 30th, 2007 at 1:40 am
please change for me the appearence of my mail
November 30th, 2007 at 2:12 am
I can’t use e-mail at all. please fix back the way it was before. thank you
November 30th, 2007 at 2:34 am
Hi i cannot read my mails at all please fix it for me
November 30th, 2007 at 4:34 am
Alright all you dweebs who just say
“I can’t read my mail please fix it for me”
What the hell do you think Ryan can do for you? You’ve told him NOTHING about your problem. You’ve given him NO guidance to help you. What system are you running? What browser? What versions? What hardware? What type of connection? Do you even KNOW these answers? Do you know where to find those answers?
Ryan’s made is clear multiple times that he’s NOT tech support, so quit treating him like he is. And even if he was, you’re making stupid requests.
November 30th, 2007 at 5:07 am
I updated my toolbar, now I can not get my mail. The mail window will not open at all.
November 30th, 2007 at 6:10 am
How do I get back to my old Yahoo? When I go into y e-mail I can’t read it. I have macular degeration and this is all too close for me to see.
Please help me, I liked it before
Thanks
November 30th, 2007 at 8:25 am
Keep making these absurd up-dates and soon 95% of your users will be at another e-mail/ home page. Then what will happen to your advertising revenues?
Study the great success of Ford and GM and see where it got them. I DON’T update. The last time that I did, it took me two months to straighten out the mess.
Some of us have lives to live and jobs to do. For us the computer is a tool to accomplish out tasks–NOT a toy to amuse us.
December 2nd, 2007 at 9:33 am
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December 2nd, 2007 at 10:30 am
I HAVE TO USE THE OLD VEWSIN BECAUSE I AM BLIND AND I HAVE LOW VISION
JOY IALLMAN
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:36 pm
shopping for everyone
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:38 pm
all i want is to get my mail
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:39 pm
just get any kind of mail