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Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch On Skype Toolbar

Posted by Soulskill on from the take-a-time-out-until-you-can-play-nice-with-the-other-kids dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Whenever Skype is installed or updated, it automatically installs the Skype Toolbar add-on for Firefox. Unfortunately, the add-on causes serious performance problems, slowing down some operations by a factor of 300 and is one of the top causes for Firefox crashes. As a result, Mozilla has decided to 'soft-block' the add-on, effectively killing it on all Firefox installs unless the user intentionally re-enables it. Given the extreme popularity of Skype, this has ramifications for millions of users."

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  1. Queue endless discussion on allowing add-ons... by HarvardAce · · Score: 3, Funny

    And here comes the endless 500 post thread on how shouldn't allow to install without . This then ends up becoming a debate on operating system security and rights management and 100 other completely unrelated topics. Oh, and vi is better.

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    1. Re:Queue endless discussion on allowing add-ons... by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh, and vi is better.

      F that noise. If it was so great there wouldn't be an improved version. Having said that, Emacs has never been improved. Thus Vim is the best of all. QED.

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  2. Re:All I have to say is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's code like yours which makes for buggy toolbars. You're missing the /rant tag for your /endrant.

  3. Re:do it mozilla. by by+(1706743) · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're wrong -- toolbars are awesome...

  4. Re:do it mozilla. by dougisfunny · · Score: 4, Funny

    He said Good day!

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  5. Re:do it mozilla. by miknix · · Score: 3, Funny

    hadn't posted since "...by airrage on Friday July 28 2006, @11:52AM." so just thought I would log back in and say hello. I shall now go back to my experiments. Good day to you sir!!

    you must be new here..

  6. Re:do it mozilla. by kdemetter · · Score: 3, Funny

    We found a toolbar , may we burn it ?

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