Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch On Skype Toolbar

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 21, 2011 @09:05AM 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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Re:Queue endless discussion on allowing add-ons... by HarvardAce · 2011-01-21 09:12 · Score: 1, Offtopic

d'oh...that should have read:

And here comes the endless 500 post thread on how [Browser X] shouldn't allow [Add-on Y] to install without [User doing Z].

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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