Oddly enough, after upgrading to the latest version and Yahoo Widget Engine 4.5.1, the widget can no longer load headlines. It just hangs at "Fetching headlines; please stand by."

I love the widget by the way.

I've used this Widget for several months, and love it. Since upgrading to the latest version a couple of days ago, however, it doesn't work (on my machine, at least). I've uninstalled and reinstalled the main Widgets program and have fiddled with my firewall's settings, but as yet it will not fetch any headlines.

This could just be something affecting my machine, and not a problem with the Widget itself, and based on previous versions, I heartily recommend it (hence the five…-star rating).

If anyone could help me solve the problem I'm having, though, it'd be much appreciated... (sorry, I wasn't sure where to go for support). More

manekineko, This issue has been addressed in the 2.1 release. It is an issue with how Yahoo! Widget Engine 4.0 now identifies widgets. Hopefully they will fix this in a future release (there have been many comments on the forum about it), but in the meantime, download version 2.1 and you'll again be able to launch as many copies as you want!

Something about the new version of this widget behaves differently than it used to and from all other widget I've seen. I have two copies of the widget running, with different file names. It used to be that they would each have different settings and would remember them.

Now, however, they will only remember differing settings until you restart the widget engine, at which time they both become the same, overlaid in the same position with the same things showing.

Is there anyway to fix th…is issue or else add a functionality to spawn an additional section view? I like to leave separate sections open simultaneously on my desktop to keep up on news from the 2 sections that interest me. More

Todd,
Thanks for updating your widget and for the work on it. Between the NYT and the BBC, I won't miss any news now.