From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: I'm using Gaim to connect to Yahoo Messenger. It crashes all the time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open up gaim 2.Connect to Yahoo 3.Talk Actual Results: It crashes Expected Results: It shouldn't crash Additional info: I updated Gaim to 0.59.6 and it doesn't crash anymore. They said something about a Yahoo bug that was fixed recently. Please update Gaim to the most recent version.
This seems to be a duplicate of bug 76955.
Problem and fix both confirmed. It's pretty much unusable for the yahoo protocol without the update.