Yahoo email problem

[Jimmy9190]

Mrs. Jimmy has a problem with her laptop, it's a Toshiba, about a year old. Yahoo has been telling her for 2 days now that her screen resolution does not meet their minimum requirements so it can not display her email. The screen resolution is fine, is at least 300 x 200 more than Yahoo's minimum requirements, and is set at the recommended Toshiba resolution in the settings menu. The laptop is not on right now so I don't know the exact specs but I checked it earlier today and it is above the Yahoo specs. We use Firefox 25.0.1 and it is up to date with the most recent current version. All other pages within FF work fine, web browser, FF add-ons, etc. A Google search did not turn up much help on this. Anyone have any clues how to fix this so she can read her email?

 

[wkcars]

Might be zooming or some other settings in the browser. Try resetting the zoom or zoom out.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/973807

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/973983

 

[Jimmy9190]

Originally Posted By: wkcars
Might be zooming or some other settings in the browser. Try resetting the zoom or zoom out.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/973807

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/973983


Resetting the zoom fixed it right up. Thanks for the links and help.

 

[nikolaT]

Forget yahoo email, really sucks compared with gmail, i have two yahoo account locked cos i don't remember my security answers.

 

[97tbird]

This current version of Yahoo is the worst ever - lost emails, rendering issues, crashes, buggy as [censored]
After about 16 yrs of Yahoo Mail wife and I are thinking of jumping ship...

I am assuming GMail will be suggested by most as the best alternative ?

 

[Quattro Pete]

Originally Posted By: 97tbird

I am assuming GMail will be suggested by most as the best alternative ?

You could also take a look at Outlook.com, the new face of hotmail, LOL. It does have a rather simple pleasant web interface, but i don't think it supports IMAP, which is important if you're using an email client application (such as Mozilla Thunderbird) on multiple PCs. In terms of features, Gmail is hard to beat. I've been using it for 10+ years, but I mainly access it through Thunderbird. Not a big fan of their web interface.

http://free-email-services-review.toptenreviews.com/

http://email.about.com/od/awards/ss/The-Best-in-Email-The-About-com-2013-Readers-Choice-Awards.htm

 

[xfactor9]

The new yahoo mail interface is the most buggy of the free email sites.

If you have a lot of yahoo email you don't want to discard, I suggest using a local client like Thunderbird. Unbeknownst to many, you can use IMAP with yahoo (it's not officially supported). I've been using it for a few months now.

Don't use POP with an old Yahoo account though. I have a 10-year old account that I tried to download onto my POP client, and the yahoo server screwed up many of the old emails during download. I constantly got errors trying to download them

 

[Hokiefyd]

Originally Posted By: 97tbird
I am assuming GMail will be suggested by most as the best alternative ?


I've had Gmail for a very long time, recently added an Outlook.com account, but I think I will stay with Gmail. The only reason, really, is I like accessing it with the Gmail Offline extension to the Chrome browser. We have so many different devices at home (Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows XP, Linux Mint, iOS, Android) that I have done and gone to using Chrome as our cross-platform browser, and the Gmail Offline extension provides a consistent interface.

I don't particularly CARE for the interface. I wish they'd give up on the stupid labels and different inboxs (Social, Promotions, etc) and make it work like real email. But in the end, the benefits outweigh the parts of it that I don't like.

 

[uc50ic4more]

Gmail has been awfully good to me over the years.

An alternative, albeit a sliiiiiiiightly techie one, is to spend ~$12/year and get your own domain name. A lot of domain name registrars will provide webmail (and maybe POP and/ or IMAP) email address or two with purchased domains. You could get jimmy9190.com and have a [email protected] email address that could "follow" you perpetually as long as you retain ownership of the domain name. This is what I do; and I forward my domain's email *to* Gmail (using their now-no-longer-free "Google apps For Your Domain" program).

 

[97tbird]

Created a GMail account...ok.
And now I realize I can get all my old emails from yahoo to migrate and have new mail (that's coming to yahoo) forwarded to GMail etc etc...
But what we didn't think of is -we have so many websites / online accounts (financial and otherwise) that are linked to our yahoo addresses as log-in/username...we have to change all those ??
But then again, I guess we can keep the yahoo account active, and just use Gmail strictly for email purposes....

changing log-ins and usernames for all those accounts and forums will be a major PITA