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There’s a reason you don’t have a Skype toolbar anymore

It might not be a record they wanted to set though you have to be impressed, the Skype toolbar single-handedly crashed 33,000 Firefox instances. Even worse, the way it detected phone numbers was having a large detrimental effect on performance in general. According to Ars Technica, for two weeks Mozilla tried to get someone at Skype to repair the problem for before opting to disable the add-on. It is not uninstalled, just disabled so you can turn it back on if the new found speed and stability of Firefox disturbs.