Download Yahoo Messenger for Mac 3.0 beta 2

On the Yahoo Messenger Blog, the developers of Yahoo have released the second beta version of Yahoo Messenger for Mac announced. The new beta can be found by clicking this link as a dmg file for Mac OS X 10.4. Yahoo Messenger for Mac is still in development and will have the same features as the Windows edition of Yahoo Messenger. For example, beta 2 of the Mac version uses tabs to chat with multiple contacts in one screen and chat sessions are now logged under the name ‘message archiving’. In addition, file transfer and webcam support have been improved.

This new version includes:

• 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!

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]