Yahoo Messenger Sucks

[rajesh]

The New Yahoo Messenger sucks. It does look good. But it is taking a whopping 30 MB of RAM

My computer actually froze because of Y!.

Even in my office computer ( P4 2.26 Ghz and 256 RAM) it slows up the system.

Is it slow all over or am I the only one facing this problem.

[theraven]

another day another problem eh ?
try out gaim
i happen to like it
theres trillian as well
and MIRANDA IM which id love to use if it wasnt for all that customisin and those plugins

[drgrudge]

I have tried trillian and Gaim and don't like it. Man, i tell u, life is gonna be difficult for u as soon as u start using multi IM clients.

1.Whenever u close ur Gaim window, it logs off and not minimises to system tray.
2. Also u need to keep more windows open to keep it going.
3. Also for trill and miranda (never tried it), we need plugins to keep it going.


By the way i have a slow system and i have no problems with Yahoo (even though, it takes up more memory).

[khattam_]

IM2 Messenger is better than Trillian.......... and better than Yahoo! Messenger too........

[ShekharPalash]

hmm... looks like we're again having IMs War here

Switch to GAIM... it's stable, fast & most of all its OpenSource.
Miranda is also good... + lot of tweaking & full bags of options & plug-ins with it

[ferrarif50]

Even I am facing the same problem at Home, but at my office ( Athlon XP 2000+ and 1 gig RAM ), it does not make a dent in the memory.

May be it needs atleast 512 MB RAM, pretty bad for an IM.

[techno_funky]

Originally Posted by drgrudge

I have tried trillian and Gaim and don't like it. Man, i tell u, life is gonna be difficult for u as soon as u start using multi IM clients.

1.Whenever u close ur Gaim window, it logs off and not minimises to system tray.

hmmm why fear when iam here
ok to solve that problem do this
tools>>>prefrences>>>plugins>>>
search for the plug in called "system tray icon"
enable it i.e tick at it
voila done
now you can minimize gaim to the system tray rather than loging off


about yahoo it seems it wasnt made for my exquisite system
it crashes at the drop of the hat
so i dropped it
using gaim now
and "iam Loving it "

[Sourabh]

Originally Posted by rajesh

Even in my office computer ( P4 2.26 Mhz and 256 RAM) it slows up the system.

Is it slow all over or am I the only one facing this problem.

with a 2.26 mhz system its bound to freeze ur system lolz..!!

[mohit]

Even in my office computer ( P4 2.26 Mhz and 256 RAM) it slows up the system.

lol please edit that to make it 2260 Mhz or 2.26 Ghz and ya yahoo messenger really sucks (only this damn new version) . i face lots of problems sending/receiving files , it keeps popping a message about my firewall man. Also it is buggy i get some Dr. Watson errors many times and it shuts down. Have tried downloading the latest version many times but all of them have this problem. btw MSN 7 rocks.

[khattam_]

Originally Posted by Sourabh

with a 2.26 mhz system its bound to freeze ur system lolz..!!

Of course..........

[cool_dude_prav]

GAIM is really THE BEST...

You can take a Promise from me and all other users.. It will never cause a problem in its period of usage..
But like all Open Source players, it will need a lot of adjustments to be fine-tuned...

GAIM has also a WebCam viewer.. but only it doesnt have a Voice Module for Voice CHats..
But when u have something as clear as SKYPE.. why go for less???

GAIM Rulez...
No doubt its far better tthan any other in its class