One of the more useful Firefox plugins has been the Skype add-in that changes any phone number into a clickable link to make a Skype call. But somebody got the grand idea to change the plugin with an upgrade so that it shortens with elipses the phone number like this:

Huh? Hey, put that full phone number display back! The first thing I went into the add-in options to try and figure out how to change it so the full telephone number displays but didn’t see how it was done. So I went to the Skype extension for Firefox help page and it still shows the full phone numbers being displayed.

I found some more current versions of the plugin via Google search like v2.3.0.31 and v2.3.0.22. Tried v2.3.0.31 downloaded from softpedia and that was a bust (link intentionally removed).

According to the Skype forums, they withdrew support for the separate Skype plugin back in September 2007(?). Yikes, how did I miss this? Now it’s part of the installation process for versions 3.x of Skype? You have to select in the options that you want the Firefox plugin. So I reinstalled Skype from scratch attempting to try that option. Only see the Internet Explorer add-in option.

So I checked the internet explorer option and was curious if my phone numbers would be full length in IE.

Nope. Outside of hacking the Firefox plugin code, which seems like the only option remaining to fix this to me, is there any option or way to turn on full numbers display? Anyone? Bueller? Before I start digging through the plugin code, I want to be sure I’m not missing some option somewhere to fix this.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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