The full version of Yahoo! Messenger currently only works on Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT computers. We do have a Java version of the Messenger available for all other users. The Java Messenger will work on most Windows 3.1 systems.
Yahoo! Java Messenger will only work with Netscape 3.0 or higher or Internet Explorer 3.01 or higher.
If you need a newer version:
Internet Explorer can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/ie/download/ Netscape can be found at http://home.netscape.com/download/
To Enable Java in Netscape 3.0:
- Select Options from your menu bar
- Select Network Preferences, then select LANGUAGES.
- "Enable Java" and "Enable Javascript" should both be checked.
- Click OK.
To Enable Java in Netscape 4.0 (Communicator):
- Select Edit from your menu bar
- Select Preferences, then select Advanced.
- "Enable Java" and "Enable Java script" should both be checked.
- Click OK.
To enable Java in Internet Explorer 3.x (Yahoo! Java Pager needs version 3.01 or better):
- Select View from your menu bar
- Select Options, then select the Security tab.
- At the bottom of the page in the Active Content box, make sure all boxes are checked. (Note: You might also want to click the Safety Level button here and select Medium to prevent warning message interruptions.)
To enable Java in Internet Explorer 4.0:
- Select View from your menu bar
- Select Internet Options, then the Security tab.
- For the Internet Zone, select Custom and click on Settings.
- Scroll down to the Scripting area of the list.
- Under Scripting, set Active scripting to Enable, and set Scripting of Java applets to Enable.
- Click OK to return the Security Settings, then click Apply, and then OK.