Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch On Skype Toolbar

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."

Queue endless discussion on allowing add-ons...

[HarvardAce]

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.

Re:All I have to say is...

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Queue endless discussion on allowing add-ons...

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

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.

Re:do it mozilla.

[by (1706743)]

You're wrong -- toolbars are awesome [penguinpetes.com]...

Re:do it mozilla.

[dougisfunny]

He said Good day!

Re:do it mozilla.

[miknix]

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..

Re:do it mozilla.

[kdemetter]

We found a toolbar , may we burn it ?