286433 - Yahoo web mail text being concatenated

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Travis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

Messages I compose in my yahoo mail (via web interface, not pop3) arrive to
recipient with text concatenated.  Also, the ability to send and receive color
and graphics in mail is not available.  I have tried the color and graphics
extension, but had to uninstall it after the most recent update because it was
destroying the text of messages when replying or forwarding.  I know I'm not the
only person with this problem, my brother and wife have experienced the same. 
We all use mail several times throughout the day and hate to abandon Firefox,
but will be forced to return to IE if there is no fix for this problem.  Thanks
for any help you can provide. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Compose a yahoo mail message (no html/graphics ability)
2.Send it
3.Ask recipient what it looks like, or have them reply and look at how all the
text was concatenated every 15th word or so.

Actual Results:  
Exactly as stated.

Expected Results:  
Send legible messages and prefer to have the ability to use bold text,
hyperlinks, etc.

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

See Bug 284887 "Blank page pulls up when attempting to log in to Yahoo mail." and
about 300 similar bugs. Maybe the problem is with Yahoo, maybe not, but if the 
fine folk at yahoo cannot come here and file evangelism bugs against Firefox, then
it is a case of its taking two to tango.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.