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Yeah, I really hated Skype extension that would install itself without my explicit consent or considering the fact that I don't use laptop to make phone calls.



The Skype extension also significantly slows down page renders. It needs to die in a fire.


It also has a nasty habit of inserting its markup in places it doesn't belong, like textareas and inline editable elements (WYSIWYG editors).


I'd never run into that, but yowza, that's ugly.


One instance of this behavior (involving the Firefox toolbar) is referenced here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning-s...

Administrators on the English Wikipedia set up a filter to simply block edits which were tainted by that bug.




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