Skype should have an option to disable Skype Home screen pop up... - response from Skype employees [ Edited ]

[starknaked]

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Vasyl Yablonsky added a comment - 15/Aug/11 9:51 AM
Hello, thanks for the info. Work on this issue started. ID WIN-20876
We passed this info to our developers team.
Thanks.
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Vasyl Yablonsky added a comment - 15/Aug/11 11:06 AM
I will post an updates about this issue here. I passed info and complains to our developers team. Proof is ID WIN-20876 of issue in our internal jira.
Thanks.

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Raul Liive added a comment - 17/Aug/11 10:02 AM
Thank you all for raising this troublesome point in here and on our community.

We are working on improving the situation in-house and trying to determine the best possible solution for all the users.

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Raul Liive added a comment - 05/Sep/11 9:08 AM
We are working on solution to improve your Skype user experience on this situation.

Please stay tuned for updates on this.

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Apparently they are pretty hard at doing something. Skype that is. They are tuning in Skype users, building solutions, improving user experience. But I think that they have a situation.

I can come up with the answer you may post in a week on Jira. Let me see... it should be something like : " Maintain your focus for a little while. We are on a brink of epochal discovery! At Skype we work very hard, but the job is tedious. "

I know that SKype will not ask me, but if you ask me, I adore the Home screen. It is just brilliant! I have some Skype credit in my account. That might be the sole reason that I am getting little less Skype Home magnificence i.e. Skype Home does not pop up often enough. Make it a little more frequent for the paying guys in order to make them pay more! Ingenious, don't you think?

I am not sure how exactly Skype uses Internet Explorer in the Home Screen business. Is it built in Skype or does Skype "borrow" Internet Explorer services. Obviously from version 5 they are something like integrated?

TheUberOverLord said:
"Note: The newer Skype clients use IE ("Internet Explorer") programmatically, so IE must be currently set up properly, even if it is not your default browser, or not used normally."

Does it mean that if we make Internet Explorer dysfunctional we get a crippled Skype? Shouldn't Skype then advertise itself as an Internet Explorer adjunct?(maybe thus we can explain the higher system resources usage)
If anyone knows more about the symbiosis between Skype and Internet Explorer, please enlighten us.



[ruwim]

I’m not a Skype expert, so my answer will not be very technical or even might not be 100% correct. Everything is based just on my own experience.

Skype is using several Internet Explorer components, but IE is not in any way embedded in Skype.

Since version 5.5, Skype is using a locally stored file, index.html, in order to create the new login screen. On Vista/Win7 computers this file is located in C:\ProgramData\Skype\Apps\login. Without a properly working IE, you will not be able to do login (unless using the well hidden switch /legacylogin).

Skype is using IE for the “Add a contact” function. When this function is used, Skype must connect to an internet site apps.skype.com/friendfinder (set https:// in front of this link).

Skype is using IE in order to create the Home window. In this case it must be able to connect to apps.skype.com/home. In “old” days the file used for version 5.3 was apps.skype.com/skypehome but now, even for 5.3, it’s replaced with the same file as in the case of 5.5. This was possible to do without any changes to the current installation.

Even the very much loved ads, which from time to time pop-up in the Home window are downloaded from the net.

For all this to function, several different script files and style files (.css files) are downloaded too and used by IE engine.

Based on all this, without well functioning IE, you may not see the full Home window but Skype will be totally crippled too.

[starknaked]

Thank you for your most revealing reasoning, Ruwim.

Skype relying on a browser is not very prudent, more so if the browser is Internet Explorer.

[skype-helps]

The solution is here : Disable Skype Home autostart – Solution

community.skype.com/t5/Windows/Disable-Skype-Home-autostart-Solution/td-p/138420

[HaveaNiceDay]

Skype also has these annoying pop-ups in right bottom corner. Each time a friend comes online I get these. They are annoying particularly because they get in front of everything and if your mouse is scrolling a document, you click accidentally on these friends coming online, then you get into a Skype window for htat friend. It is all burdersome to close that window, so in effect I now wait when a friend has come online until the message fades. Could someone help me how to switch these online-friends-announcements off? In the Skype help completely unrelated answers come up. 

[ruwim]

Go to Tools -> Options -> Notifications. Check/uncheck the appropriate notification options. Save.

[mbeavon]

I cannot find the Add a contact page, and I cannot find the page (maybe the same one) to video call some one on my page. I did see it once the first time I downloaded free Skype.

Since then...several days, I have not been able to access anything but the log in and the info pages. I am not savy enough to do all the things this message site suggests...too many steps and it's very confusing. I am disappointed. Why after I log in, do I not see more than the info pages? On one of them it shows the contact page with a task bar on the top...that is what I want to access. Any ideas? 

[ruwim]

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mbeavon wrote:

I cannot find the Add a contact page, and I cannot find the page (maybe the same one) to video call some one on my page. I did see it once the first time I downloaded free Skype.

Since then...several days, I have not been able to access anything but the log in and the info pages. I am not savy enough to do all the things this message site suggests...too many steps and it's very confusing. I am disappointed. Why after I log in, do I not see more than the info pages? On one of them it shows the contact page with a task bar on the top...that is what I want to access. Any ideas? 

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If you have downloaded and installed Skype on your computer, then find Skype’s shortcut (icon) on your desktop, double click this shortcut and start using Skype program from your computer. You can do nothing using your browser and Skype.com webpage.