Mozilla Blocks Official Skype Toolbar Add-on for Firefox

Re:Mozilla Blocks Official Skype Toolbar Add-on for Firefox by jeffb on Friday January 21, 2011 @12:08AM (#2126526)

"Skype Toolbar is one of the top crashers of Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13"

In 2010, Mike Beltzner (director of Firefox) announced that Flash causes more crashes than any other plugin. Maybe they should ban Flash while they're at it.

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Re:Mozilla Blocks Official Skype Toolbar Add-on for Firefox by stanleydrew on Friday January 21, 2011 @12:36AM (#2126565)

We all know that's not possible. That would be like Firefox blocking requests to facebook.com because some users end up getting phished or stuck with malware from facebook apps. Nobody would use a browser that blocks flash (and doesn't support h.264 in <video>).

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Re:Mozilla Blocks Official Skype Toolbar Add-on for Firefox by elxx on Friday January 21, 2011 @03:19AM (#2126828)

If I remember right, this was right before Firefox 3.6.4 introduced out-of-process plugins so Flash has its own process to crash instead of taking down the whole browser.

Of course, for some reason the Skype plugin is still capable of crashing it...

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Re:Mozilla Blocks Official Skype Toolbar Add-on for Firefox by kinetik on Friday January 21, 2011 @03:29AM (#2126848)

That's because it's an extension, not a plugin.

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Re:Mozilla Blocks Official Skype Toolbar Add-on for Firefox by rmc on Friday January 21, 2011 @07:24AM (#2127177)

The Skype plugin adds much less functionality to the browser than flash.

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