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Too bad their shitty mail service does not play nicely at all with Firefox. Seriously, Yahoo Mail does not even allow me to attach a PDF when I'm in Firefox.

by l33tbro 12y ago

Too bad their shitty mail service does not play nicely at all with Firefox. Seriously, Yahoo Mail does not even allow me to attach a PDF when I'm in Firefox. There's a raft of other functionality issues which drove me to the decision to migrate 15 years worth of emails out of it.

Kequc 12y ago
The only yahoo properties that I'm aware of that I use are groups and mail, both of which are a buggy mess. When I started noticing the "Upgrade to firefox" spam I cringed a little bit inside at how far firefox has fallen. I'm using Chrome over here, it's the world's most popular and arguably most powerful browser. I don't need to "Upgrade" away from it, makers of yahoo groups and yahoo mail. It doesn't come across to me as being good advertising.
- mintplant 12y ago
  It's only fair play when Google tells users to "switch to a faster browser" (Chrome) on their homepage.
aikah 12y ago
For me it has always been about the spam filter(gmail is way better at it) ,and the fact that I didn't have to pay to read my mails in outlook with gmail.Maybe it has changed but the "forwarding" was a paid feature in yahoo mail.
- _delirium 12y ago
  Oddly the lack of a decent spam-filter was the reason I left gmail. It had way too many false positives for me, including some very problematic ones. The last straw was when it flagged an email from my landlord as spam, with the explanation that it was flagged because it was written in Danish, a language I don't normally communicate in. It's true that I don't normally write in Danish. But I do live in Denmark, so it doesn't seem very justified to flag something as spam just because it's written in Danish. If anything, emails written in Danish are the most likely to be important!
  - Karunamon 12y ago
    I've had the opposite experience - demos of hosting mail elsewhere lead to me getting absolutely overwhelmed by spam. I think being a gmail user since it was initially released has given it a really long time to train to the spam I normally receive. Very few false positives too. Maybe one or two a month.
    - _delirium 12y ago
      One or two false positives a month? You must have low standards. <1 false positives a year is my threshold. I don't believe that throwing out non-spam emails is acceptable.
      - Karunamon 12y ago
        Not even remotely realistic, in my experience.
wutbrodo 12y ago
I use Chrome and occasionally log in to my old Yahoo mail...I can't imagine it's that much better than the experience on Firefox. Half the time the page just randomly decides to cut off the search bar (which I use a lot).

by l33tbro 12y ago

Kequc 12y ago

The only yahoo properties that I'm aware of that I use are groups and mail, both of which are a buggy mess. When I started noticing the "Upgrade to firefox" spam I cringed a little bit inside at how far firefox has fallen. I'm using Chrome over here, it's the world's most popular and arguably most powerful browser. I don't need to "Upgrade" away from it, makers of yahoo groups and yahoo mail. It doesn't come across to me as being good advertising.

mintplant 12y ago
It's only fair play when Google tells users to "switch to a faster browser" (Chrome) on their homepage.

aikah 12y ago

For me it has always been about the spam filter(gmail is way better at it) ,and the fact that I didn't have to pay to read my mails in outlook with gmail.Maybe it has changed but the "forwarding" was a paid feature in yahoo mail.

_delirium 12y ago
Oddly the lack of a decent spam-filter was the reason I left gmail. It had way too many false positives for me, including some very problematic ones. The last straw was when it flagged an email from my landlord as spam, with the explanation that it was flagged because it was written in Danish, a language I don't normally communicate in. It's true that I don't normally write in Danish. But I do live in Denmark, so it doesn't seem very justified to flag something as spam just because it's written in Danish. If anything, emails written in Danish are the most likely to be important!
- Karunamon 12y ago
  I've had the opposite experience - demos of hosting mail elsewhere lead to me getting absolutely overwhelmed by spam. I think being a gmail user since it was initially released has given it a really long time to train to the spam I normally receive. Very few false positives too. Maybe one or two a month.
  - _delirium 12y ago
    One or two false positives a month? You must have low standards. <1 false positives a year is my threshold. I don't believe that throwing out non-spam emails is acceptable.
    - Karunamon 12y ago
      Not even remotely realistic, in my experience.

wutbrodo 12y ago

I use Chrome and occasionally log in to my old Yahoo mail...I can't imagine it's that much better than the experience on Firefox. Half the time the page just randomly decides to cut off the search bar (which I use a lot).