Hello,
I have had the same problem and I have found that the Mac version of the messenger is nowhere near as well developed as the PC version. Yahoo also doesn't seem to care.
I don't know if this will work for you but I went to the messenger preferences and adusted the speed/quality to more quality and and made the video size smaller. Mine hasn't crashed lately. The main problem seems that the program is just not the same quality as the PC version. Good luck.
Hello! As anyone with an iSight probably knows, an iSight works with iChat (which I think is AOL's messenger because it has the AOL running man on the icon...). However, I would like to use my iSight with Yahoo Messenger, but every time I attempt to do so Yahoo Messenger crashes and quits. Short of calling Yahoo, I have not found ANY support on Yahoo's sight regarding Macintosh with video, let alone iSight. Has anyone had any luck using iSight with Yahoo Messenger?

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