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Skype plug-in for Firefox blocked by Mozilla due to crashes, epic slowdowns
As Stephen Shankland points out over at CNET, the Skype plug-in has had a lengthy run as the #1 or 2 cause of crashes in Firefox 3.6.X. Right now, the total tally is running at about 40,000 crashes per week -- a number that Mozilla just isn't OK with. They also call out Skype's phone number detection and linking feature as a major problem, causing big-time slowdowns when Firefox tries to render a Web page.
If you're concerned this might break Skype on your system, it won't. The Skype program itself will continue to work as it has, you'll just be missing the toolbar in Firefox and the clickable phone numbers on Web pages -- and we don't know many people who will miss those.
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Subscribe to commentsderk pJan 21st 2011 9:11AM
i always thought it was pretty handy since ive had an actual skype paid subscription for a long time. my computer sometimes acts really busy though when firefox is open. maybe ill remove it...
codeman38Jan 21st 2011 9:21AM
I'm really not surprised at this at all-- the Skype browser plugin is truly a mess of bugs. It attempts to put HTML tags around anything that looks like a phone number... even if it's *inside a textarea tag*, which clearly should not allow HTML tags within it.
Suffice it to say, this wreaks havoc on any wiki page that happens to mention a phone number whenever someone with the plugin edits it...
codeman38Jan 21st 2011 9:23AM
Clarification - it doesn't just add HTML tags, it also adds some hidden text that's styled using CSS so as to be invisible. Or would be, if it weren't, y'know, inside a textarea so the HTML part was ignored.
Crome TysnomiGnu32Jan 21st 2011 12:30PM
This is good. I consider the Skype extension spyware as it sneakily tries to include itself in a Skype installation. This has the sad result of many of my clients' browsers graced with this ugly shit of an extension. Thanks Mozilla
SilverWaveJan 22nd 2011 12:13PM
Add in tool bars are evil :-)