Beware of the Skype Firefox Add-On

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I was facing some problems in Firefox since few days. It usually used to auto refresh pages and was not displaying some pages properly.

I checked some settings and found that it was due to the Skype Firefox Add On which I had installed recently. I uninstalled it and things started working fine. I thought it to be an issue just with my system and didn’t post about it. But then I came across this post in ghacks where it says that many users have faced such an issue.

So if you are facing abnormal Firefox behavior then make sure you check if you have the Skype Firefox extension/ add-on. If you do then it is better to uninstall it for the time being.

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Aseem Kishore

// May 8th, 2008

1

Thanks for the tip, will keep that in mind. Didn’t know about this.

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Darshak

// May 9th, 2008

2

I had a bad experience with skype add-on on IE7 last year. Then I uninstalled and never see it again. Now you got on FF. Hope skype developers may fix this issues to save other users.
Recently I am facing another issue with FF on http://www.orkut.com. When, I try to go to anyone’s favorite video, I can’t see it. Just a blank space will be covered in place of video, any1 else having this issue or any help?

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Abhijeet

// May 9th, 2008

3

@Darshak Can you see other flash videos like on Youtube? Try and delete cookies and temp files in FF
Haris

// May 9th, 2008

4

Thanks a lot for the tip. I’ll keep this in mind while installing that add-on.
Darshak

// May 9th, 2008

5

Thanks Abhijeet…
I just cleared cookies and videos are back now.

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Sumesh from Blog Creativity

// May 9th, 2008

6

I guess it is a good thing that I usually keep a minimalist Firefox setup with only the most essential extensions.

I usually uninstall extensions installed by Skype, DAP etc., so I’ve never noticed this problem.
Zach

// May 31st, 2008

7

I had a similar issue on Firefox with loading full size images, I’d click an image to enlarge and the browser would sit there for a minute, refreshing, and suddenly tell me that there were errors with the image. It did this for every image I found. so I went to the FireFox Error Console to see what was wrong. It was Skype having the hang up, I don’t know what it was trying to do though…
Brendan

// June 22nd, 2008

8

I downloaded the official release of the new firefox 3 a few days ago and it stopped a few of my older addons from working. I changed a few options in the about:config area so that they would work and a few of them started to function. Today I installed skype. Now firefox would not open without crashing. I couldn’t find out why it kept crashing because it wouldn’t open in the first place. I used the safe mode feature and found out that the skype extension was not compatible with firefox 3. I uninstalled it and now everything works fine again
Alaia

// June 27th, 2008

9

Boy am I glad I found your blog recently and decided to go through some previous posts! I installed this add on to my computer at work and have been suffering from major auto-reload issues. I couldn’t figure out what it was. I’m uninstalling it now!

Thanks for the information!