Skype Firefox Exention Changes Phone Numbers into Buttons
December 15th, 2006 | Posted in blog 11 Comments »
Update: For steps on removing the Skype-Firefox extension, see this post from howtogeek.com.
Skype 3.0 has just been released. An interesting feature is the Skype extension for Firefox. When you browse a website and see a phone number on the site, the Skype extension automatically converts it into a button that you click to call the person using Skype. Unfortunately, with Skype 3.0, calls to cell and home phones now cost money.
Here’s a picture of the button:
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Hey,
its a nice tool, good job! But I am a law student and in my current reseraches a lot of numbers which are actually no phone but provision references are displayed as phone numbers.
Honestly it is kind of annyoing.
Where can I switch that off? I am using Firefox.
Cheers,
Claas
Tools->Add Ons -> disable Skype plugin
I don’t appreciate Skype secretly installing an extension into Firefox.
Websites have to be given permission to install extensions. How did Skype get around that? Did they make a secret deal with the developers of Firefox.
So many programs install piggyback applications (toolbars, weather channel system tray icon) and try to change your home page, if you use the ‘typical’ install option. You cannot trust most developers, it seems.
I would consider using the extension, if I were given the option to NOT install it when installing Firefox, but as it has been done without my consent, I am now wary of using Skype.
skype works great, but the plugin will change linked phone numbers too and then i can use the link.. maybe its better to have a flouting button when you roll over a number!
This is a bad plugin imo, particularly since I didn’t want it.
Malware. Thanks for telling how to remove it.
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Thanks
Phew! Thanks for letting me know how to turn that off in Firefox – it had been annoying me for weeks.
I find this truly annoying. I don’t use skype for everything but they just go and assume I do. If I wanted it I would turn it on…but being a web developer it’s impossible to tell what the site looks with this annoying plugin.
Please, can someone tell me how to turn this annoying thing off in Windows Explorer?
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