Users of the Yahoo! Toolbar are seeing only the default set of buttons (what you'd see if not logged in) and, in some
cases, not loading buttons at all. According to posters in the Y! Toolbar support forum, this was first
blamed on the recently released new version of Firefox. But it was soon pointed out to be inflicting IE users as
well. Several of yesterday's posters complained
of missing buttons on their Y! Toolbars.
We'll keep you posted. In the mean time, you can open your Yahoo! Bookmarks in a separate tab or window to help get you through this.
UPDATED (within the hour of posting): My Yahoo! Toolbar just reloaded successfully (happened on it's
own with no help from me). Notably it contains a button that I was trying out a few days ago and lacks the button that
it replaced. I had dropped the button I was trying and reinstated the original in its place. So it would appear that my
current toolbar configuration is days old. Maybe Y! is restoring from a back up of the database? This would also explain
the rolling downtime and recovery that users are reporting.
Yahoo! Toolbar users suffering from withdrawals.
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. Dear Yahoo! Toolbar Users:
We are sorry for the inconvenience. We had a system problem which some of you noticed that affected our ability to serve your personal settings. Things should be up and running again as of this Wed morning (Pacific time).
Our engineers need to get some sleep now, but we'll wake them up again if we need to. Thanks for your support!
/duke
Yahoo! Toolbar Team
3. Duke: Thank you for providing this clarification. It's much appreciated. It's good that you also pointed out the human effort behind such events. We often forget that it's more than pushing a few buttons to fix or keep things going. Thanks again.
Posted at 5:07PM on May 3rd 2006 by Joe Beaulaurier
1. This happened to me last night but so far today it has been loading without any problems.
Posted at 11:09AM on May 3rd 2006 by mj