Login to Skype 5 opens multiple tabs (pop-ups) in Internet Explorer

Problem: after login to Skype 5, multiple IE tabs are opened trying to connect to a Facebook URL

Solution: disable Facebook integration in skype 5. The easy way is to click on the "Don´t show facebook on skype" link located on the Facbook tab. However, if like us, you have blocked access to facebook from inside the Company network, the facebook tab won´t never show that link.

So the manual procedure is as follows:

1)      End any network connection from the computer with the problem. This will prevent the tabs being displayed.

 2)      If opened, log-out from Skype

3)       Go to the folder %AppData%\Skype using Windows Explorer

 4)      Search for a folder with the same name of the username used with skype

5)      Using Notepad or any other plain text editor, open the file config.xml and search for the line <FlamingoDisconnected>0</FlamingoDisconnected>.

6)      Change the 0 to 1

7)      Save and close the file and login again to Skype. Tabs should not open.



If you cannot find the FlamingoDisconnected text in the config.xml file you can add it under the <General></General> section.  I have found that the FlamingoDisconnected text is only added to the xml file if  the content of the Facebook tab is displayed at least once in Skype.