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….
05 Oct 08 Official Launch of Google Toolbar 5 for Firefox – straight from St. Petersburg, Russia Google office – beta download
Well as I mentioned earlier Google had released the Google Toolbar 5 but only for Internet Explorer a few months ago… FireFox were left running either one of the third party Google Toolbar or the official Google Toolbar 3.
Well, now, it’s official; Vladislav Kaznacheev of the Google office in St. Petersburg, Russia announced the official availability of Google Toolbar 5 for Firefox. Now, it’s important to note that it is a beta release, but I’m pretty confident that it’s relatively stable enough to at least try out.
Several cool new features – the one I like most is a greatly improved Autofill which now allows for multiple profiles (Robin @ work, Robin @ home) with different contact information saved for autofilling web forms.
17 Jul 08 Firefox 3.0.1 released for download with critical security fixes including the Carpet Bomb threat on Firefox for Safari
Firefox 3.0.1 was just released for download and it’s highly recommended that you immediately upgrade your FF 3.x installation (tell me that you’re not running a beta or RC version of 3) as it includes several critical security fixes.
I’m hitting post on this article and then doing the upgrade on a few machines here at work… yeah, at work. :/
Tags: Firefox, IT Security, Software, Web 2.0
11 Jun 08 Firefox 3.0 RC3 download link & changelog – it’s almost final!
Well, a lot of us thought that FireFox would be seeing a final “RTM” version of their 3rd generation browser this week, but it looks like it won’t be happening.
The RC3 version has just been released today for download… I think this is the right move as I noticed several rather serious bugs even in builds as recent as RC2.
