Mozilla Blocks Skype Extension for Firefox

Skype is an awesome VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) app. Firefox is nevertheless one of our favorite browsers. What happens when you put the two at the same time? You get a buggy combination, Mozilla says.

"The current shipping version of the Skype Toolbar is one of the top crashers of Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13, and was involved in nearly 40,000 crashes of Firefox last week," Mozilla stated in a blog post. "Additionally, depending on the version of the Skype Toolbar you're using, the methods it uses to detect and re-render phone numbers can make DOM manipulation up to 300 times slower, which drastically affects the page rendering times of a large percentage of Web content served today."