Mozilla has announced to block the official Skype Toolbar add-on for Firefox, which comes bundled with the Skype installer. Mozilla says that this add-on is causing browser crashes and slows down certain processes by up to 300 times.
The Skype toolbar add-on is installed automatically to all user profiles of Firefox when a user installs or updates the Skype application. Users can use this toolbar to call directly to the numbers displaying on the web pages using Skype. Mozilla describes, "The current shipping version of the Skype Toolbar is one of the top crashers of Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13, and was involved in almost 40,000 crashes of Firefox last week. [...] We’ll add all versions of the Skype Toolbar to the Firefox Blocklist for all versions of Firefox.".
Users can disable the Skype toolbar manually by visiting Tools menu > Add-ons. The complete list of all blocked add-ons can be viewed here.
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