The current shipping version of the Skype Toolbar is one of the top crashers of Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13, and was involved in almost 40,000 crashes of Firefox last week. Mozilla's reasoning is rather straightforward: To see if you have beta access you can load up in a compatible browser (IE, Firefox or Chrome on Windows, Safari on OS X).Yesterday, the Mozilla team took the rather drastic step of adding the Skype Toolbar to their "Firefox Blocklist" so that the toolbar is disabled by default (with the user being notified and having the option to re-enable it).
To learn more jump over and read the official Skype announcement. Microsoft is rolling out access to the beta in stages, so chances are you can’t use it even if you want to. The VoIP service says only a “small number of existing users” are being given access initially, but that it plans to add more as it rolls out the feature worldwide over the next few months. The end destination should be golden, with Microsoft aiming to encompass all major browsers, including Safari, Firefox and Google Chrome on Windows, Mac and Linux (and, presumably, Chrome OS too). The current bumps in the road are only minor. Please try it on your desktop computer instead.” “Sorry, Skype for Web (Beta) isn’t available on this device yet. Indeed, accessing the beta page in Chrome on a Chromebook shows the following message: And, no surprises, it’s not available for Chrome OS. Right now? No.Īlthough the eventual aim is to power Skype for Web using the open WebRTC standard, t he beta still requires a plugin to be downloaded in order to use it.
So does this mean we’ll finally be able to use Skype on a Chromebook? Theoretically, yes.
Skype for Web Beta, which the company detailed at the end of last month, will eventually offer plugin-free video and voice calls, and instant messaging, natively in most modern browsers, including Google Chrome. Microsoft has announced the next step towards letting you make Skype calls from the browser without needing to install an app or plugin.
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