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

[Howard Leighty]

<aninfinityofmonkeys@gmail.com> wrote in message
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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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