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Hey Guys,
I'm having some problem with the Skype icon, whenver i try to open my Mozilla Firefox. It icons seems to be re-apperaring whenever i try to move it off from my address bar. Can any body tell me that how do i get rid of the above issue? Is there any way by which i let it go away from my Firfox? Kindly provide me the correct solution to resolve the above problem.
Thanks a lot.
You are facing such problem because of having Skype browser addon on your system. It had got installed at the time of installing Skype on your system.
There are two ways to get rid of the Skype Browser Plug-Ins. Either prevent them from being installed in the first place (this gets rid of two out of three of them), or try to disable/remove them with the browser Add-On controls. Please note that once you choose to prevent them from being installed, they will never again be "automatically" installed as part of any future Skype upgrade, but you will still have to perform the third step of the browser disable procedure below, because Skype will in fact install one ActiveX control despite your specific instructions not to do so. If you choose to remove them via the browser add-on controls, keep in mind that they will probably might reinstalled it next time you upgrade Skype on your system. So you will have to repeat this procedure again. In both cases, if at some point in the future you do a complete uninstall/reinstall of SKype, you will have to go to the Installtion Options screen and prevent them from being installed again.
How to PREVENT Skype Browser Plug-Ins from installing
- Download the latest Skype installation image, and execute it
- In the first installation window that comes up, click "Options" at the lower left corner
- In the Installation options window, un-check both browser plug-ins. If you want to avoid other potential future problems, also un-check the Skype "Extras", which are also installed silently by default and have nothing to do with Skype communication
- Also un-check the box for "Run Skype after installation"
- Complete the installation normally
- After the installation is finished, and BEFORE you run Skype the first time, perform step 3 of the following procedure, to disable the ActiveX control that Skype has installed despite your specific instructions not to install Browser Plug-Ins.
If there is a "Skype" Icon visible in the Firefox toolbar, click on the down-arrow at the right side of the Icon and select "Remove Skype extension for Firefox"
If you don't see a "Skype" Icon in the Firefox toolbar, then go to Tools--> Add-ons,and then select the "Skype Extension for Firefox", and then click on Uninstall. Then close the Add-ons window, and close your Firefox, and then restart it.