Op het Yahoo Messenger Blog hebben de ontwikkelaars van Yahoo de tweede bètaversie van Yahoo Messenger for Mac aangekondigd. De nieuwe bèta kan door te klikken op deze link als dmg-bestand gedownload worden voor Mac OS X 10.4. Yahoo Messenger for Mac is nog in ontwikkeling en zal dezelfde mogelijkheden krijgen als de Windows-editie van Yahoo Messenger. Zo maakt bèta 2 van de Mac-versie onder meer gebruik van tabs om in één scherm met meerdere contacten te chatten en worden chatsessies voortaan gelogd onder de noemer 'message archiving'. Daarnaast zijn de bestandsoverdracht en de ondersteuning van webcams verbeterd.
This new version includes:Although this latest Beta doesn’t yet offer voice calling, we’re still working on it and hope to offer it soon. Note that this new Beta 2 version only works on Mac OSX 10.4 or later. In order to get this out sooner, we had to make a choice about which version of OSX to support.[break]
- Tabbed IM windows: When you have two or more conversations going on, they appear as separate tabs in a single window. Less clutter for your desktop! Plus, you can drag a tab out and make it into its own window (or drag it back in to consolidate). Tabbed conversations are a preference, so if you prefer having one window per IM conversation, you still can.
- Chat rooms: Yup, the same Yahoo! chat rooms that Windows users have been using are now open to Mac users.
- Message archiving: All of your IM and chat room conversations can now be archived on your computer.
- Improved stability for webcam and file transfer: There were issues with these in the past version so the team did a lot of bug fixes and under-the-hood work to improve them.
- More emoticons: We added in the additional emoticons that are in our other versions of Messenger, so Mac users now have them all!