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“The current shipping version of the Skype Toolbar is one of the top crashers of Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13, and was involved in almost 40,000 crashes of Firefox la
by alanh 16y ago
“The current shipping version of the Skype Toolbar is one of the top crashers of Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13, and was involved in almost 40,000 crashes of Firefox last week.” “This extension is bundled with the Skype application, and is installed into Firefox by default when Skype is installed or, in some circumstances, updated.” — Mozilla
It also busts certain designs. This sort of behavior from Skype is unacceptable.
Good on Mozilla, this is great for their users.
- wheaties 16y agoI disable any add-on for any browser I currently have that I did not expressedly install myself. That being said I've expected this kind of behavior and malpractice from Microsoft not Skype. Terrible shame, too.
- kylec 16y agoYou are right to expect this from Microsoft, they've done it before: http://robertnyman.com/2009/01/26/microsoft-force-installs-firefox-extension/ http://robertnyman.com/2009/01/26/microsoft-force-installs-f...
- yesimahuman 16y agoI also have never been able to remove it from the toolbar without uninstalling it unlike every other extension. Haven't used it lately though.