Comments on: Firefox Skype Extension

By: Christophe Carvounas

Christophe Carvounas — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:17:35 +0000

Thanks, I was just wondering why I loose my extension, and was unable to find it back despite Skype reinstall – options – Install firefox extension checked.
You perfectly gave me the solution.
Regards.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:05:49 +0000

I am looking for the Firefox extension .xpi file that is most current. I am trying to install to Mac. I have the version which works on my pc but it doesn’t appear to work for Mac

By: apitchford

apitchford — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:07:28 +0000

Inukaze,
Not being a Linux user I’m not sure I understand your question sufficient to assist.
I hope these two links might help you for using Skype with Ubuntu.

http://beginlinux.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/installing-skype-on-ubuntu-904/

http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/skype

By: Inukaze

Inukaze — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:58:23 +0000

Hi, well im under Linux (Ubuntu 9.04) Im Using Skype 2.0.0.72.

I wanna know, when the Skype Page, send you a contact , how i do to Firefox to Send the Contact to Skype ?

By: apitchford

apitchford — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:45:05 +0000

Steve, I saw this comment after I’d responded to your first one. My first suspicion would be that some malware protection software may have prevented the ‘full integration’ of the extension into Firefox similar to the comment I made in the last reply. May be you could follow this line of thinking and tell me how you get on.
Thanks,
Andrew

By: apitchford

apitchford — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:40:50 +0000

Steve,
I decided to check my own installation again which had a ‘Skype’ add-on listed in my Firefox addons but was also ghosted out for ‘Options’. I forgot to write it down but the addon at this point had a version number of 2.XXXX. This made me think twice simply as we’re up to version 4.0 of Skype. Later you will see this was a red herring. I realised, prompted by your comment that I actually hadn’t used the Skype addon for some time and it wasn’t functioning in my browser environment. Probably because of some upgrade or me rushing to install Skype 4.0 along the way. So based on this I decided to uninstall the extension and start again.
First I went for the MSI version install of Skype 4.0 from the business section at http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/windows/business/ Once you’ve downloaded and begun the installation please ensure you choose ‘custom’ install. I also noted my Spybot prog was picking up on the ‘Browser’ integration so make sure any malware protection actually allows the full install. You may find you have to disable malware or anti-virus programs while the install is in progress. Then reboot and enable them again post-install.

After install and restarting Firefox I found I had my Skype button back in the right hand corner of my browser. I then clicked on it and was shown the Skype extension options as well as the version number for the Skype Firefox extension of 2.2.0.102 From here doing a search of the ‘Yellowpages’ brought up phone numbers with the Skype link applied apart from a couple that had badly managed spaces between phone numbers. A good result with version 4.0 of Skype and the Firefox extension.

Hope that helps!
Andrew

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:41:28 +0000

update – I see the skpye actions button on my browser to the right of the google search but whether I highlight a number or not, clicking it just opens a window saying “turn number highlighting on” which is checked but no action is taken.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:22:21 +0000

Could someone please tell me how to activate or configure and use the extension in Firefox? I downloaded the Skype msi version 4.0.32.224 and see it in the list under “add-ons” but the option button is ghosted out like it was in the standard version of skype I had installed and uninstalled earlier – and there is no listing of it in the firefox toolbars. As i understand it, firefox is supposed to let you hightlight (any?) numbers and a skype button will allow us to call – or does this only work on web pages which have been coded with something like this: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Skype

Help

By: Hersey

Hersey — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:22:52 +0000

Hi – Installed skype on SO winXP – she had several issues – one was when she attempted to open inbox in Mail.com – it would just redisply page. I uninstalled the skype add-on and mail.com worked immediately. Maybe there’s some other combination conflict – but that seemed pretty direct. BWDIK !! Good luck

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:15:11 +0000

Found this post via google ad glad I did, my extension disappeared from FF and grabbing the MSI fixed it. Strangely, I chose to install the IE version of the plug-in and it still doesn’t work in IE.