They are aware of the problem. It only affects Firefox and not Internet Explorer. Here's what it says on the worthathousandwords.com webpage: QUOTE 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

well I had to try it even though I never use my yahoo email, I had no problem at all, I added a new contact by hitting the gold save button, closed it opened it, fine. I then went back to contacts hit the gold edit button and changed the spelling, saved, fine. I even did the delete using the little trash can icon. every thing I tried worked fine. Does this only happen with one contact or with any that you try to alter? when you did your edit or save did it show a new little box in your window showing the spinning icon showing that it was doing something then show it corrected?

I should have also said: Be sure you know which folder your browser is set to for downloaded files. Change it to another if you would find that easier to work with (I create a "c:\downloads" folder on all my PCs. I point all browsers to that folder, so that I don't need to crawl down too many levels to find files) The file that will be in whatever folder you download to, that you'll attach to an email, is named: yahoo_ab.csv You should maybe first double check that it came out ok by navigating to it using Windows Explorer and then opening it with whatever spreadsheet program you use.

I think some of you are overstating the case. As I understand it, it's a software driven context review for ad placement and nothing more. It's the same as Google or any other search engine does when you do a search (look how the ads magically bear some connection to your search term and your location). It's what Gardenweb does when you're reading forums, the pages show ads triggered off of key words. You can't stop the machine analysis but if you don't like the ads, tack an ad-blocker on your browser. There's no geek with thick glasses reading your nasty email to your sister. There may be other things in the world invading your privacy but I don't think this is anything to worry about.