Submission + - Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch on Skype 4
An anonymous reader writes: Whenever Skype is installed or updated, it automatically installs the Skype toolbar addon for Firefox. Unfortunately, the addon causes serious performance problems, slowing down some operations by a factor of 300 and is one of the number one causes for Firefox crashes. As a result, Mozilla has decided to "soft-block" the addon, effectively killing it on all Firefox installs unless the user re-enables it. This is the first time the kill-switch has been used for an addon that isn't spyware. Given the extreme popularity of Skype, this has ramifications for millions of users and may create an unsettling precedent for addon developers.
