New Yahoo Mail slow as heck, but there's a way to get the Classic webmail back
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 12:11 pm
In case customers, friends or family is still using Yahoo, here's a workaround.
Apparently Yahoo has a new webmail design. It seems to be VERY bloated with scripting or maybe it's just the animated adds eating up bandwidth, but the new interface is laggy as sin, and even buggy. Sometimes you click on buttons and they have no effect at all no matter how long you wait. I've had a few clients call me in to look at it because they though they were having Internet issues or their browser was slow.
If you Google "New Yahoo Mail is slow" you will get thousands of forum posts with people complaining about it and want the old classic webmail back.
If you try to contact Yahoo, they claim you can't go back BUT there is a way to fool the system into toggling you back to the Classic webmail. Temporarily disable JavaScript (not Java, JavaScript). In Firefox it's in the Options->Content tab. In IE it's buried in the Advanced Options.
With JavaScript disabled, log into Yahoo Mail. Since the new webmail interface is Javascript based, it'll tell you that you can't use it and that you can either switch to the Classic version for this one session, or from now on. Select from now on, and you're back in the old HTML based classic webmail.
You can turn Javascript back on now, and you will always log into the classic webmail. If you get offered to upgrade to the new version, refuse it.
They may eventually force everyone over to the new one some day, but by then maybe they'll have worked out the bugs.
Apparently Yahoo has a new webmail design. It seems to be VERY bloated with scripting or maybe it's just the animated adds eating up bandwidth, but the new interface is laggy as sin, and even buggy. Sometimes you click on buttons and they have no effect at all no matter how long you wait. I've had a few clients call me in to look at it because they though they were having Internet issues or their browser was slow.
If you Google "New Yahoo Mail is slow" you will get thousands of forum posts with people complaining about it and want the old classic webmail back.
If you try to contact Yahoo, they claim you can't go back BUT there is a way to fool the system into toggling you back to the Classic webmail. Temporarily disable JavaScript (not Java, JavaScript). In Firefox it's in the Options->Content tab. In IE it's buried in the Advanced Options.
With JavaScript disabled, log into Yahoo Mail. Since the new webmail interface is Javascript based, it'll tell you that you can't use it and that you can either switch to the Classic version for this one session, or from now on. Select from now on, and you're back in the old HTML based classic webmail.
You can turn Javascript back on now, and you will always log into the classic webmail. If you get offered to upgrade to the new version, refuse it.
They may eventually force everyone over to the new one some day, but by then maybe they'll have worked out the bugs.