Weird slowdown of the web caused by Skype
 

After rebuilding my PC the other week it's of course been running quite fast in it's current uncluttered state (probably won't last for long)

Anyway I suddenly had a slowdown on IE8 and thought I might have a redirect going on somewhere...

Turns out it the new Beta of Skype that loads a plugin that scans each webpage for telephone numbers and converts them into clickable skype links, so watch out anyone thinking of installing Skype 4.1 and notice a slowdown that'll be the cause...

You can tun it off either in options or directly in IE8's Manage Add-Ons

Re: Weird slowdown of the web caused by Skype
 

This feature has been there for atleast a year now.

Re: Weird slowdown of the web caused by Skype
 

:tu: Never used v4 before as I had major porblems with it accepting call forwarding when using an unlimited account.. It still tries checking to see if you have credit (looks like 4.1 does the same :( )

I think Skype has gotton WAY OVER BLOATED with tons of un-wanted/needed crap!!

Used to be a good program!!