Everytime I close Firefox, it aks me if I want to send a Crash Report as if closing with the "X" icon would make Firefox crash.

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No, I don't have McAfee installed, but with about:crashes, I was able to see other threads with same crash report and it seems that the Skype AddOn is the problem. After a couple tests, it does seem to work correctly.
Thanks for the help!

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