Yahoo Mail problem
 

For the last few days I have had trouble accessing Yahoo Mail using both IE 5.5 and Mozilla Firefox v 1.0.1. In the case of IE, a blank page with "done" on the status bar appears followed by a delay of a couple of minutes before the Yahoo welcome page materialises. With Firefox all I get is a page of what seems to be programming data. I also use Mailwasher Pro and this connects immediately to yahoo bringing up inbox details. My Wife and Daughter also use Yahoo and have no problem connecting instantly using the same PC with either IE or Firefox.

After reading of Proxy issues elsewhere on this forum I decided to try specifying a proxy and opted for hudd-cache-1.server.ntli.net which has corrected the problem for me as far as IE5.5 is concerned. Changing the proxy on Firefox still results in the page of programming data. However if I then change proxy again to say cache 2 and connect to Yahoo, without entering ID and password my welcome page appears.

Can anyone suggest a solution to this puzzle, please?

Re: Yahoo Mail problem
 

Have you tried clearing your temp files out in case you have something in there jamming the page load up?

Re: Yahoo Mail problem
 

Have tried that without success. Seems strange to me that other members of the family can get into their accounts easily. Also no problems with any other sites.

Re: Yahoo Mail problem
 

Could try clearing the cookie for your account, might be part of the problem. If you want to try from a clean profile you could create a new user profile on your pc and use that account to log into Yahoo and see if it works. If it does then it might be a file on your current user account that is causing it. I'd start with clearing the cookie as long as you know your password and user name information ;)