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Re:Mozilla Blocks Official Skype Toolbar Add-on for Firefox by jchonphoenix on Friday January 21, 2011 @12:10AM (#2126529)
It feels really fishy that skype forces you to install something like this.

Any time a company pulls something like this on me, they lose all credibility in my book. Its as bad as spyware and adware.

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Re:Mozilla Blocks Official Skype Toolbar Add-on for Firefox by elxx on Friday January 21, 2011 @01:49AM (#2126676)
To be clear, it's an option in the installer that you can uncheck.

Of course the vast majority of users won't notice that, and the add-on has a terrible habit of breaking page layouts, so this is a great move by Mozilla.

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Re:Mozilla Blocks Official Skype Toolbar Add-on for Firefox by towelrod on Friday January 21, 2011 @03:33AM (#2126862)
No, its not. I just installed Skype yesterday, and the installer doesn't even mention the plugin. It just installs it.

I immediately disabled it because it has caused problems for me in the past.

The installer does ask if you want to install the Chrome toolbar.

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Re:Mozilla Blocks Official Skype Toolbar Add-on for Firefox by elxx on Friday January 21, 2011 @05:00AM (#2126979)
Oops. I remember having an option before, guess they changed that.
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