![]() ![]() This is similar in function to the mailto: URI scheme, which creates a new e-mail message using the system's default mail program. Yahoo! Messenger's installation process automatically installs an extra URI scheme ("protocol") handler into some web browsers, so that URIs beginning " ymsgr:" can open a new Yahoo! Messenger window with specified parameters. The resolution of the images can be seen starting at 320 x 240 pixels or 160 x 120. The service is free with provided speeds averaging from a range in between 1 to 2 frames per second. This option enables users from distances all over the world to view others who have installed a webcam on their end. Yahoo's software now allows users with the most current updated versions (messenger 8 through 10) to utilize its webcam service. The plug-in also player functionality, such as play, pause, skip and rate this song. ![]() Yahoo! Messenger users can listen to free and paid Internet radio services, using the official Yahoo! Music Radio plug-in from within the messenger window. Yahoo! Messenger also allows users to access Yahoo! Chat Rooms.Īs of December 14, 2012, all public chat rooms on Yahoo! Messenger have been shut down as part of a series of features being changed/added/deleted. Another recently added feature is customized avatars. It was also the first major IM client to feature BUZZing and music-status. In addition to instant messaging features similar to those offered by ICQ, it also offers (on Microsoft Windows) features such as: IMVironments (customizing the look of Instant Message windows, some of which include authorized themes of famous cartoons such as Garfield or Dilbert), address-book integration and Custom Status Messages. Yahoo! Messenger was originally launched under the name Yahoo! Pager on March 9, 1998. Yahoo! also offers PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service, file transfers, webcam hosting, text messaging service, and chat rooms in various categories. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic "Yahoo! ID" which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically notified when they receive new email. Yahoo! Messenger (sometimes abbreviated Y!M or YM) is an advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!. Instant messaging client and Internet phone Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android, Symbian, iOS and UNIX/ Linux/ FreeBSD/ Solaris (no longer supported)
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