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18 years ago

I just came across a major yahoo email problem.

While using Yahoo mail (on Firefox), I found all of my "reply to" email attempts resulted instead in a page serving from "js.worthathousandwords.com". This would get in the way of the reply emails, every time, and hang, so that I couldn't see my reply pages.

I managed to resolve it by adding a filter to Firefox's AdBlocker Plus. I named the filter *.worthathousandwords.com and it seemed to take care of it. Don;t know if yahoo is the source of this treachery, but just letting everybody know.

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marooma
18 years ago
They are aware of the problem. It only affects Firefox and not Internet Explorer. Here's what it says on the worthathousandwords.com webpage:
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We are aware of a problem with Firefox and Yahoo Mail.
There is no problem if you use an IE browser to read Yahoo Mail.
Also a temporary solution is to disable Java Script in Firefox.

We apologize for the problem, it is not intentional.
We have contacted Yahoo and are trying to fix the issue with Firefox as quickly as possible.
UNQUOTE
homebound
Original Author
18 years ago
Thanks. That wasn't there when I checked their webpage earlier.
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