Cannot reply, forward or compose in Yahoo! mail

Sounds like you're having problems similar to me.

I've been using Yahoo Mail for many years, never had a single issue. Then about 2 months ago, all hell broke loose. Suddenly I can't use the Reply, Forward, Search, and various others buttons. I click on them, nothing happens. Basically, most any button that has an associated drop-down menu doesn't work. My Save button under prefs doesn't work either. Under IE, I can see that it's reporting errors on the webpage, something about missing Javascript objects. For some unexplained reason, these errors just won't go away. And it's not just IE, Opera and Firefox are exactly the same. So it certainly appears to be a server-side problem. But strangly I *NEVER* have these problems when accessing my Yahoo Mail account from my wife's PC! Works perfectly, every time, and always has. I'm just about at my wits end w/ Yahoo Mail. I tried someone else's suggestion about clearing the cache of old file/content, which does seem to make a difference at times. But pretty soon the problems return. And sometimes even clearing the cache doesn't help. Then every once in a while, out of the blue, these buttons and drop down menus will start working again, but usually becomes a problem agai within minutes.

As I said, I'm at my wits end. I've been scouring the 'net looking, anywhere, for others having similar problems, then I saw your post. I initially assumed this was some sort of Yahoo screw-up, perhaps they messed up the Javascript, and that it would be straightened out in a few days. But nows it's going on TWO MONTHS of this hell. I can't take it no more, and I can't find ANYONE who can explain what's going on, nor how to correct it. I'm stumped. Even retreating to image copies of my WinXP installation, images that were created long before this problem started, are experiencing the same problem. So this seems to be another indication it's server side related. But then there's my wife's PC, it NEVER has these problems. Same WinXP SP1, same apps, same everything. Nothing particularly different between our PCs that would even begin to explain why here PC seems immune.

I wish I could find someplace were everyone is clearly have the same problems as myself. But it's difficult to do since I'm not sure what's the best way to describe the problem, or what to search on. As a 20 yr software developer, I pretty much solve all my own problems. But this Yahoo Mail thing is becoming hell on earth, and I'm totally aggravated at this point that NO ONE seems to have a clue what the problem is, or a definitive answer. Even the suggestion to change the compose page from graphic to text is only a workaround (you're simply bypassing the troublesome graphic javascript, pr4esumably). Again, this is only circumventing a problem that never seems to get fixed by Yahoo. And it doesn't seem to be affecting everyone, just some people. I can't determine what's common among us unless we can all find each other first! That's half the battle here.

Sorry for the rant, but again, I'm at my wits end. The idea of now having to start all over w/ Gmail or similar, rebuilding folders, filters, etc., is something I dread. But after two months of ZERO progress, I just don't know what else to do. I even posted the problem on the microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support newsgroup some time ago (those posts by Jim are *me*), got almost NO feedback, last I checked, one guy had a similar problem, or else ppl just are finding it. So I don't even know how widespread the problem is. Here's the link, if anyone's interest:

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support/browse_thread/thread/c904839f9065c9ca/6a3183990544f22f?q=drop+downs+not+responding&rnum=1#6a3183990544f22f

Please, someone, anyone, HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!

I had a problem accessing my addressbook when composing an email. A half dozen emails to Yahoo support remained unanswered. Yahoo's support seems to be no-existent.
I was using Mozilla Firefox as my default browser.
In this forum, some people reported solving (different) problems by using Netscape instead of IE as their browser. So I downloaded and installed Netscape 8.1 (free), made it my default browser, and voila! the problem is gone.

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