"We were unable to save your preferecens..." (sic)

[lamont]

Andy L.;3921018 Wrote:
>
> Given the fact that this dialog box appeared in three totally different
> web browsers, I think there is a high probability that it was generated
> by the Yahoo.com website -- not by the August 2008 Windows Updates.
>

Its happening to me with Firefox on FreeBSD 6.x, so I seriously doubt
that its related to either the O/S or the browser.


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[Buckykatt]

I am having this same problem since late last night/early this morning,
it just appeared and i believe i was on one of my usual shopping sites.
Today it is appearing more so, or so it seems on Yahoo and like another
person said, even more when i'm opening mail. I've emailed Yahoo to ask
what they know and I hope they fix this soon. It's highly annoying as
I'm sure you already know
I'm running Windows XP and was using IE v.6 but then upgraded to v.7
thinking maybe that was the issue but it wasn't. Tried a system restore
too. From all i read here, it's not specific to any common thing except
in many/most cases, Yahoo seems to be the common denominator.


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[Howard Leighty]

<aninfinityofmonkeys@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:f9ccebb4-d110-41a6-a91e-d7e75a4be979@v1g2000pra.googlegroups.com...
On Aug 13, 9:38 pm, Jack <j...@beanstalk.com> wrote:
>> After visiting the MegaMillions website (coincidence?), I kept getting a
>> small popup window with a title bar that said "Windows Internet Explorer"
>> and the exact message:
>>
>> We were unable to save your preferecens. Please try again
>>
>> The misspelled word and lack of period in the 2nd sentence don't look
like
>> a professional app. It came up randomly but seemed to be related to
closing
>> IE7 tabs. I don't recall setting any website preferences and it came up
at
> >least once after I closed/restarted IE7. I am running Windows Vista.
>>
> >What might this be?


>Seeing the same thing here on IE7, WinXP, but only when visiting
>Yahoo! News. I've never visited MegaMillions.


After some experimenting, I am thinking this is a bug internal to Yahoo.

I tracked down Yahoo by phone and finally got to a real person who
guided me in making the bug report via help.yahoo.com

I was assigned Yahoo Reference Number 7724002 and they asked
to see screen captures. So I did as they asked. See my report at

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=21lleux&s=4

[figfuggo]

Needless to say, I don't think I'll be trying to change any of my
_preferences_ any time soon. Not until this is resolved, anyhow.


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[Jack]

It looks like my initial association with the MegaMillions site was timing
coincidence.

I was also on Yahoo! in other tabs and this may be related to a news video
bandwidth preference (vague recollection of clicking a setting). Most
likely a bug by a lazy speller who slipped a crippling typo in the code. I
haven't seen it pop up today.

Jack

[silversj]

This probably won't work for mail users, but in order to read news in
IE, I set the website in my "un-trusted website" list, which inhibited
scripts from running. I think "local news" won't work, however.


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[flowerchili9]

I had the same problem since last night, when opening any/all Yahoo
emails while in IE but not in Firefox. I’m using an AT&T Yahoo IE7
browser.

After googling the error message “we were unable to save your
preferecens” I found that others had solved the problem by deleting
their entire IE browsing history – which I did, including checking the
box “also delete files and settings stored by add-ons”. The problem
is now solved. Hope that works for others reading this.

[cheripie]

I am also getting this error message from Yahoo. It happens when I'm in
my Yahoo email account and either hit delete or try to go to the next
email, etc. I can't figure out where it is coming from but it doesn't
seem to pop up when I'm reading Yahoo News. This is very aggravating.
Any suggestions? Is my computer being hacked or something? Thank you.


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[figfuggo]

So far this morning seems to be much better; hasn't happened yet. I've
been reading yahoo.news articles all morning without incident.

/knocks on wood


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[Buckykatt]

figfuggo;3923123 Wrote:
> So far this morning seems to be much better; hasn't happened yet. I've
> been reading yahoo.news articles all morning without incident.
>
> /knocks on wood

I'm knocking on wood also..it seems that to this point, whatever it was
has been fixed as I've been checking Yahoo Mail just fine. Here's hoping
it stays that way.


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