Firefox has a spell checker - good for this forum

paul_w schrieb am 02.05.2012 um 22:25 Uhr
Hi all, just noticed after a new update of FireFox (v12) we get a spell checker built in showing a red wavy line under spelling errors. This is brilliant for spelling duffers like me. Never noticed it before so not sure how new this really is.
From options->Advanced, select "enable spell check.."

You can also add words to the dictionary, right hand click a new word and click Add - rather like MS Word.

It only works for forms (like our posts here) with more than 1 line of text. Single line entries don't work.

cool.

Paul.

Kommentare

Tom Pauncz schrieb am 02.05.2012 um 22:46 Uhr
It's been there a while Paul. At least since FF v3. :-)
Tom
Jay Gladwell schrieb am 02.05.2012 um 22:57 Uhr

So does Chrome.

paul_w schrieb am 02.05.2012 um 22:58 Uhr
Jes, really? i have been suffering from bad spelling on this forum for years.. lol.

Oh well hope this helps someone else too.

Paul.
Jay Gladwell schrieb am 02.05.2012 um 23:06 Uhr

Better late than never. ;o)

Editguy43 schrieb am 03.05.2012 um 03:17 Uhr
Speaking of spell checkers, why can't Vegas or other editing software have built in spell checkers? I think it would be very nice when making lots of titles and the like.

Paul B
Byron K schrieb am 03.05.2012 um 06:51 Uhr
Google has a decent online word processor:
https://docs.google.com/?pli=1#home
Geoff_Wood schrieb am 03.05.2012 um 06:59 Uhr
Once when I was living in Indonesia I saw a (local) lady typing something into Word. Almost EVERY word had a squiggly red line under it. She looked totally non-plussed when I switched the language to Bahasa Indonesia and the little red lines all went away. I think she hadn't even noticed them, or knew what they meant :-)

With the FF thing, will it change the likes of the common word error "alot" into the "a lot", or "allot" ;-?

geoff
PeterDuke schrieb am 03.05.2012 um 07:59 Uhr
What does it do with smilies? :)

Or YMMV, FWIW, HTH and RTFM?

LOL
rs170a schrieb am 03.05.2012 um 12:55 Uhr
Spell Checkers

Mike
Ehemaliger User schrieb am 03.05.2012 um 20:12 Uhr
Best sububject line, eber.