If you happen to have a Yahoo Mail account and if you happen to find the redesign ugly, there’s a sneaky way to get back the less ugly (though still ugly) look of Yahoo Mail Classic. Long story short: disable JavaScript in your browser, open up Yahoo Mail, choose “Return to a previous version of Yahoo! Mail,” and enable JavaScript. There’s a more detailed explanation from user Rudjake here.
Too bad Yahoo doesn’t offer something like Gmail’s new Preview theme, which to my eyes is a model of clarity and good taste.
[Yes, I use a Yahoo Mail account for blog-related stuff. Yes, I would feel like a jerk typing the exclamation point again and again.]
Friday, July 29, 2011
Yahoo[!] Mail Classic
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Michael Leddy
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Thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteI hate arbitrary UI redesign.
You’re welcome. I’ve since found that keyboard shortcuts for archiving messages no longer work, but they’re not working in the redesign either.
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