995621 - Problems with SeaMonkey browser with Yahoo mail: will not access or load email

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 995706

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[currter]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 SeaMonkey/2.25 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140318183706

Steps to reproduce:

I try to access email
mail.yahoo.com  and under seamonkey it won't load , recent phenomenon .



Actual results:

Nothing happens the email under yahoo will not load

I have cleared the cookies, history everything even
uninstalling and reinstalling the browser and problems with yahoo specifically.


Expected results:

I should be able to use this browser to read yahoo emails.

Comment 1

[poko_poko]

I have both Windows XP and Windows 8.1 with Seamonkey 2.25 with the same problem using Yahoo Mail, so it is not OS specific.  I downgraded to various older Seamonkey releases (2.24, 2.16, 2.3) as well as upgraded to the latest 2.26 Beta and they all have the same problem with Yahoo Mail (as described by the original poster).  I am certain that Yahoo Mail worked fine in the past with prior releases of Seamonkey, so the change seems to be with Yahoo Mail recently that made Seamonkey stop working for using Yahoo Mail.  Meanwhile, Mozilla Firefox continues to work OK with Yahoo Mail so the problem is something specific to Seamonkey and not a problem with the Mozilla engine that both Seamonkey and Firefox share.

PLEASE FIX THIS SOON.  Without the ability to use something basic as Yahoo Mail, I will be forced to abandon SeaMonkey and adopt use of another browser.

Comment 3

[currter]

Well I think the problem is with yahoo. So maybe this is not a Mozilla bug. so
check compatibility with something Yahoo may have done or updated recently.

I am using other browsers when accessing yahoo ... namely 
RockMelt and OmniWeb ... among others more reliable browsers and yahoo
(Firefox, ...).

Thank you for listening at least.

Comment 4

[currter]

also I will note , when accessing Yahoo! mail with SeaMonkey,
at times it will "time out" and there is a message 
"taking too long?" load basic mail

so I do that and I can view emails in yahoo.

Thank you once again.

Comment 5

[currter]

Also note, Netscape Navigator browser works fine accessing yahoo email
so that is an alternative and perhaps staying within the Mozilla family.
Flock seemed to have some problems though.

Comment 6

[currter]

so if this is a known problem if it is a duplicate,
why are you too lazy (once again as with another issue last year)
to fix it?

Comment 7

[currter]

I mean if it is a known bug, then do something about it
so people like don't have to discover these things and changes
when the browser is no longer compatible with the yahoo mail.
I mean it was working fine up until  2 weeks ago.

I have stopped using SeaMonkey for yahoo mail and now use
either Flock , Camino, Netscape or RocketMelt (on Mac).
I have given up on SeaMonkey unless I get that message 
"taking too long?" "Load basic mail" and I can get SeaMonkey to

work

so stop monkeying around and fix something or talk to Yahoo.

Comment 8

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

In reply to comment #7:
Currter, the SeaMonkey developers are few, and they are all volunteers. If you want to work on this bug, no one stops you, go ahead. Otherwise, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html section 1.