Yahoo Messenger 9 was in beta for almost a year, and it finally exited the BETA mode the final version being launched. Yahoo switched the old Yahoo Messenger 8 page on Messenger.yahoo.com to the new and improved Yahoo Messenger 9 showcase page.

The new messenger features a way more sleeker GUI(General User interface) and even more echanced features than the ones in YM 8.

As you can see in the preview on the right the Friend’s list has been completely reshaped the friend’s having their avatars net to their name and status, and emoticons now appear when you put them in your status.

If you hover a friend in your Friend’s list his details will appear and the Fully-sized avatar, which is now bigger than the size in YM 8.

File sharing and Entertainment just got way easier, because stuff is now more organized letting you to have more flexibility and enjoyment.

The new YM features a new generation of emoticons, this means if you like the emoticons in YM 8 than you will LOVE the emoticons in YM 9, they are bigger, cooler and more fun with new emoticon additions!

With YM 9 you can send files up to 2GB/file(twice as big as in YM and if someone wants to show you a video on youtube and sends you the URL a player inside the IM window will appear and you will be able to view the video without opening your browser. The same applies to images.

Yahoo Messenger has a feature named Tabbed windows, which means that you won’t have to fill your taskbar and desktop with lots of windows, you will be able to chat with more people in a single window…umm..to make this more understandable: it’s like internet explorer 6 and firefox, firefox having tabbed browsing in a single window(i hope you got the idea this way).

An other nifty feature for us webmasters is Pingbox, which allows you to put a chatbox on your own website!

For a Full feature list(from ground up) visit the Yahoo Messenger Features page.