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SkypeNames.exe slows down Firefox 3

Recently I had some major performance issues with Firefox 3. I upgraded to 3.5 but it was still painfully slow even though my system memory and CPU were fine. Turns out it was the SkypeNames.exe that got installed with Skype 4.0.0.227. All you need to do in Firefox is go to Tools menu -> Add-ons, then uninstall the Skype service. It only uninstalls the SkypeNames.exe; Skype works normally after that. Here's a thread on the Skype Forums discussing it. http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=374041&st=0