Skype Add-On messing with Grid Phone Number Column/Cell in IE7

[jmhuge]

Just a quick note to say that I saw something quirky with a grid that had a column dedicated to phone numbers. Skype 4 decided they would graciously install an add-on to IE7 that must do something like rip through the DOM searching for phone numbers and display some cutesy images/buttons to encourage using Skype...this seemed to play havoc with my EXT grid cells causing scroll bars to pop in each one and making stuff unreadable. Disabling the add-on fixed the problem, but that may not be a solution for all...

I was force fitting the grid...so perhaps it is only certain grid configurations that have the trouble...

Just thought I would mention, thanks!

[deanna]

That addon is installed for firefox also, and it is buggy. It causes firefox to randomly crash. I had to disable it also. Nothing to do with extjs or javascript, just a badly written addon.

[evant]

Yeah, I worked on a project where it was messing with the content of the Html Editor. That was fun :|

[grzegorz.borkowski]

Last days we had very serious problems with Ext performance on Firefox. On other browsers Ext worked normally, but on Firefox it was almost non-responsive. Also some javascript performance test found on web show the same problem with Firefox (e.g. test run took 0,3s on other browsers, and 20s on FF).
Finally we discovered that Skype addon was a culprit. After disabling this addon, Firefox worked again normally. With addon enabled, all Ext appliations are non-usable.
The problem is that Skype installs/enables this plugin not even asking, and this happens also at Skype upgrades. I think it would be good to warn all Ext users about it: maybe on main page of Ext documentation? I'm also curious if it is possible to programmatically find out whether this plugin is installed.
As I remember, similar warnings were issued against Firebug "firebug can have negative influence on speed of you applications". Skype plugin has an impact orders of magnitude stronger than firebug, so be careful!