stuck in old version of Yahoo mail

With the recent news about Javascript security flaws in Firefox, I
turned off Javascript, then logged into my Yahoo mail account. A
message popped up saying that I needed to enable Java or switch to the
old version. I switched to the old version, thinking I could switch
back later easily.

I was wrong. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get back to
the Javascript enabled version. Even after switching Javascript back
on, or trying other browsers (eg Internet Explorer, which had never
had Yahoo mail problems, and I never disabled Javascript on IE), no
luck.

I even called Yahoo's free phone support, and they had me clear out
all the "objects" in the temporary internet files folder, and
re-install java, to no avail.

Anyone experience this problem and come across a solution? The old
version of Yahoo mail is tough to live with.

Re: stuck in old version of Yahoo mail

gary p larsen wrote:
[deleted]
> Anyone experience this problem and come across a solution?

Because this was a repeat post and you did not get any other
responses:

A little, but not too, tricky: Delete the account and create a new
one.

Of course there is a slight chance that someone might snatch your
account name in the small time-frame that it is free, but that is a
slight chance and probably worth the 'risk'.

If you are worried that a delete/re-create might not work, then try
that with a temporary dummy account, i.e. create/delete/re-create.

Re: stuck in old version of Yahoo mail

On 16 May 2005 09:25:21 GMT, Frank Slootweg
wrote:

>gary p larsen wrote:
>[deleted]
>> Anyone experience this problem and come across a solution?
>
> Because this was a repeat post and you did not get any other
>responses:
>
> A little, but not too, tricky: Delete the account and create a new
>one.
>
> Of course there is a slight chance that someone might snatch your
>account name in the small time-frame that it is free, but that is a
>slight chance and probably worth the 'risk'.
>
> If you are worried that a delete/re-create might not work, then try
>that with a temporary dummy account, i.e. create/delete/re-create.

Thanks, Frank, a good idea.

I did end up solving the problem. I use Norton Internet Security, and
what I did to fix the problem was log off Yahoo mail, then momentarily
turn off Norton, then log back on to Yahoo mail. Yahoo mail then
apparently auto-detected that javascript was enabled because I then
had the new version of Yahoo mail back. I then made sure to turn
Norton right back on.

I presume Norton was blocking some attempt by Yahoo mail to check
whether the browser had javascript enabled, so kept defaulting back to
the old mail version when its attempts were blocked by Norton.