OT: Firefox 2 Spell Checker - Yippee!

JohnnyRoy wrote on 10/31/2006, 4:35 AM
Did you know the Sony forums now have spell checking? It does if you're using Firefox 2!

I gotta tell ya... I've been composing posts in Microsoft Word and cutting and pasting them here for years. I just realized that Firefox 2 has a built-in spell checker. As I'm typing in the Sony forum edit window, it's giving me the red underline in misspelled words and I can right-click and correct them. No more MS WORD! Yippee!

That is worth the price of upgrade alone. No wait... it's FREE! ;-)

~jr

Comments

TomE wrote on 10/31/2006, 4:44 AM
Ok so we should have a spelling bee to test it.

:)


TomE
AlanC wrote on 10/31/2006, 5:32 AM
Watt knead is their four a spell chequer :~)
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 10/31/2006, 8:31 AM
I KNOW!!!!

I was so happy when I saw that, that I switched back to "The FOX that ROCKS" (that's a radio station in my city)

Dave
Grazie wrote on 10/31/2006, 10:32 AM
Thanks Johnny. Totally no excuse for my bed spilling know - huh? Not with those red lanes under my wards.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 10/31/2006, 10:37 AM
Yea, now if I can only get a spell checker in instant messenger, no one will know what a bad speller i am. ;-) (We use Lotus Sametime 7.5 at work and it has a spell checker built in too. It's too bad Microsoft doesn't have this in messenger but once again they are playing catch-up)

~jr
Grazie wrote on 10/31/2006, 10:43 AM
One of the Google toolbar ICONS does have a spell checker which works globally in anything INTERNET.


BTW, my Brit-Spell checker didn't like GOOGLE!?!? It wants me to accept: Goggle or Googly . .or . . better yet: "Go ogle"

Now all I WANT is an easy way to format stuff as BOLD Italic or Underlined . . .
TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/31/2006, 4:59 PM
wait... you right click to correct? Cool! Didn't know that! :D
navydoc wrote on 10/31/2006, 6:37 PM
For those of us that still use IE, you could always use IE Spell, a free spell checker for Internet Explorer. I've used it for some time now and it works great (a treat as Grazie might say).

Doc
DelCallo wrote on 11/5/2006, 2:53 AM
There is no excuse for posing (how come it doesn't work? . . . oh, because posing is a word) posting such off-topic stuff in thi (yep, there is the red line!!) forum???

I intend to report you!!

Just downloaded FF v 2. It works!!!!

Del
Wes C. Attle wrote on 11/5/2006, 4:40 AM
Ya, this feature is awesome. At first I thought it was something in Gmail.

On the other hand, I also upgraded to Internet Explorer 7 and found that it can't even load my favorite forums over at 2cpu.com... Wow, Firefox is just so nice to have.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/5/2006, 6:25 AM
To complete your forum posting experience I also highly recommend BBCodeXtra. It will give you a right-click menu to insert HTML tags simply by highlighting a word and select Bold from the popup menu and the correct HTML tags are inserted around the word. It sure beats adding them manually.

It also supports BBCode like those used by DVInfo.net, DVXUsers.com, etc.

In Firefox go to: Tools > Add-ons and press the Get Extensions link at the bottom right. Then search for BBCodeXtra.

(note: the hyperlinks and bold in this post were added by BBCodeXtra) ;-)

~jr
TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/5/2006, 10:07 AM
that's cool! It works! :D
TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/5/2006, 10:30 AM
Hmm... strange... it made a double post 30 minutes after I posted the original. :x
Paul Fierlinger wrote on 11/5/2006, 11:31 AM
True!!! Even in Czech. Funguje to v Cestine taky.