Comments on: Beware of the Skype Firefox Add-On

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:11:01 +0000

I found that my Firefox V2.0.16 would not display some web pages (just keep "waiting" or "stopped". I started in Firefox safe mode and it worked. Then I worked through the add-on gradually enabling them and sure enough it was the Skype add on you mentioned that was the problem. With this disabled Firefox works fine. Thanks!!

By: Boris

Boris — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:58:27 +0000

Seems nobody is paying attention during download and installation. Firefox first searches for add ons and warns that dictionaries for FF 2 and Skype will not work. It also searches for the corresponding FF3 dictionaries.

Skype isn't ready with the FF 3 add on.

By: Adelia

Adelia — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:55:10 +0000

Yeah, it was happening to me with Firefox 3 rc2, then in the official release of FF3. I dont know about anyone else, but how often does anyone use that plugin anyways?

By: Alaia

Alaia — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:27:39 +0000

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!

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:02:38 +0000

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

By: Zach

Zach — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:09:14 +0000

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…

By: Sumesh from Blog Cre

Sumesh from Blog Cre — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:08:19 +0000

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.

By: Darshak

Darshak — Fri, 09 May 2008 05:36:53 +0000

Thanks Abhijeet…

I just cleared cookies and videos are back now.

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By: Haris

Haris — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:10:28 +0000

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

By: Abhijeet

Abhijeet — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:29:41 +0000

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

By: Darshak

Darshak — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:13:24 +0000

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 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? Darshaks last blog post..MyPhoneExplorer - The Best Thing You Can Have for Your Sony Ericsson Phone

By: Aseem Kishore

Aseem Kishore — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:16:28 +0000

Thanks for the tip, will keep that in mind. Didn't know about this. Aseem Kishores last blog post..Internet Explorer disabled or blocked at the office? Bypass restrictions