Skype 4.0 add-ons cause IE8 crashes

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 15:47

This morning, when I was checking my hotmail with the default Internet Explorer 8.0 that came with windows seven RC, since I was tried to use Firefox, but I realised that Firefox need to login everytime when I check my mail from the Windows Live Messenger, that’s why I turn back to IE8. While I was checking my mail, I found that everytime I open up Internet Explorer, it responding slower than usual, even can get the” Not Responding” message on the top of the application.

ie-notresponding

There are several possible reasons can cause this problems, it may cause by viruses, some incompatible applications, or maybe the add-ons on the Internet Explorer. So the first step I went to the options  ”Manage Add-ons” and try to disable some of the possible add-ons that caused my IE crashed.
Tools - Manage Add-ons
Finally, I found that the problem was caused by Skype’s IE add-ons.

ie-addons

After disabled the add-ons everything goes smooth as usual.

skype4-1-0-136

That is the latest version of Skype that I just downloaded and installed yesterday, hope that this problem will get fixed on the next release of the Skype.

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