06 Oct 08 The image cannot be displayed, because it contains errors – Skype extension for Firefox causes major bugs
Well, I was baffled for a few weeks there. I had upgraded my Firefox browser to the 3.0.3 version (which is great BTW) and noticed a LOT of strange behaviour, akin to Javascript-based sites refusing to redirect correctly and getting “The image (…) cannot be displayed, because it contains errors” when trying to view images on websites within Firefox directly as the image file. The situation was turning out to be unbearable as many key sites were in essence unusable for me.
I finally got frustrated enough to begin researching the issue (hey, I wasn’t going to migrate to IE6/7/8 for my general purpose surfing needs!) and found out pretty quickly that it was most likely the Skype Extensions for Firefox based on several blog reports.
So off I went to disable the Skype extension for Firefox (v 2.2.0.94)… restarted FF and voila! All was well.
The most amazing part is that these errors were reported as far back as May of this year and even back in 2007.
In a comment about this bug over at gHacks, a user named Nick suggests getting the latest beta release of the Skype toolbar (which as of writing is 2.2.0.95) but for me, I’m not really that keen on getting it.
The Skype extension for Firefox is of limited interest to me, even if the latest beta supports skypeifying not just phone numbers, but recognizing Skype contact names on web pages and creating Skype links to them. I suspect this must add significant overhead to the browsing experience…
While I love Skype, the extension basically skypifies phone numbers on web pages to make them click directly to Skype to phone the number… cool, but far from essential.
And here I thought it was the DIGG, StumbleUpon, Google toolbars or (more likely) AdBlock Plus….
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