Spell Check in Firefox 3 is Attrocious.

Worst feature ever. It would be fine, but even with my relatively mediocre vocabulary, it flags words as misspelled, when they clearly are not. Such a limited dictionary onboard...


Discuss.

 

Firefox in general likes to close any website randomly, usually myspace and stuff like that. So I switched to safari

 

Safari is decent, the UI is great, but I kinda like firefox.
I'm gonna see if there is a way to deactivate the FF dictonary.
Wait! What country do you live in? It might not work right for people in UK because words are spelt a little bit different than in the states

 

I've never had FF close sites on me, but YES the spell checker is terrible.
Nearly all contractions (didn't, can't, won't) show as mis-spells.

Although, they didn't show as mis-spelled above, it shows 'didn't' mis-spelled here. :confused

 

The dictionary can for sure be expanded with later updates, so I'm hoping they get around to that. It's aggravating to have all my words marked as misspelled in just about every message I type.

 

How to deactivate Spell Check in Firefox:
Go to configuration (about:config)
In filter, type in spell
you will see three options, one of which will be layout.spellcheckDefault
change it to 0
spell check is gone!
Change it back to one to re-enable it.

 

Thats why I quit using it. I NEED A SPELLCHEK!

 

Safari is crap. At least use Shiira you heathen.

Random closing of websites via FF is probably a corrupt prefernce file.

 

Use my advice if you like firefox, but hate the spellcheck.
Damn! I am at Kmart and I'm using one of the public cmptrs and this mouse if freakin sick! Imma take a pic wit my fone and upload it l8r.

 

Just wondering, does the British or Australian version dictionaries have the same flaw?
I mean English is pretty much English.
Yeah, I know color and colour, grey and gray.
But normal hard to spell regular usage words would be about the same, wouldn't it?

 

Something is better than nothing.

I'll pass on disabling it.

 

I don't use FF, except as an entry to check my e-mails at www.gmx.com

USA english deletes the "U" from nearly any word ending in "our". As stated, colour in UK and Aussie English goes to color, etc. A PITA for non-Aussies using Google and other searches, etc. Bazza

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Wow are you an A+ speller?

 

I agree.. it's awful.. " doesn't " gets flagged.. I was like what? w/e lol .

 

I know....first time that happened, I was like....um...wth...

 

If you think that is bad, try using a non-English version gmail, and write in Swedish to your family...

Yes, I dissabled the spellchecker.

 

yeah, uhhhhh.. I write is swedish ALLL The time.. jag telar svenska

 

Well, to fix this problem all you would have to do is download the correct language version...

 

LOL Try posting in Dutch forums and email in Dutch with FF's spellchecker. EVERYTHING is underlined in red. LOL Must be similar in Swedish!

No, I haven't disabled the spellchecker. Tried to download the American add-on version and it failed, the one that Halo wrote about. Just wanted to see the difference. But then I'm Canadian eh? LOL

 

I DL'd the British version to compare to the American one and have just about the same flaws showing.

But as has been said, "any spellchecker is better than no spellchecker"
I mainly use it to see typos at a glance, instead of proof reading whole posts, anyway.

 

I ain't using no dang spell checker thang! I have you folks to mock my spelling and grammar...:-D

Gotta love the Open Source folks for Opera's spell checker. http://aspell.net/ Lots o' links, I run windows, just tell me where to click! :confused

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I use aspell for something....oh yeah, lyX.

 

Seems I had gone in the wrong direction with the spell checker for Opera. Got it running now.

Get the installer here: http://aspell.net/win32/

Then get the dictionary listed below. Wows, I got a spell checker thing now. Seems to work OK!

It approved the above message.:-D

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You can change your dictonary in the configuration.

 

Really.

rolleyes

 

You changed your avatar. The old one was funny.

 

You can say that again and I spent the first 23 years of my life there. I forgot how to spell, whether to use the d or dt :cry

I still use the good old translation pocket books from 40 years back to check for proper spelling in Dutch but can't find a lot of words used today. :cry
The google translation is said to be one of the better ones. It's good for perhaps one word (spelling) but when using sentences it turns the sentences all around.

 

It's the Dutch who turn all the words around.

i originate from UK but my wife is Belgian and we have lived here for 18 years and i still cannot get a grip of this taal

PS sorry not trying to hijack the thread will stop replies here now.

 

I tried installing the British and the Canadian one and FF still reads the American dictionary for some reason. I couldn't even find the the dictionaries on my drive. Help?!

 

Look in Tools>Extensions, disable the one you don't want running.
Unless.....goes to check to see if American one is still being used.


OK, right click your typed text and choose Languages, then choose the appropiate one.

 

Ooh, thank you very much muskie!!! Rght-clck is what did it! I was sweating in about:config for absolutely no reason plus enabling/disabling dictionaries. I always forget to try a right-click for some reason.:dancer This has also fixed the contraction issue very nicely indeed.:cool Maybe you yanks should switch to the Canuckaduck dictionary.:-D

 

Wouldn't still shows as misspelled, even in Canuckaduckese. :-D

 

Meh, add it to the dictionary. I tried four others and they all worked. Now I hope that Adryn changes the thread title and stops embarrassing himself. LOL

 

Impossible! roflmao

 

Uh-OH your getting mean like me roflmao

 

I'm sorry, just saw this. I meant the whole browser, I use iespell on IE 7. So I guess FF has it's own add on for spellig?

 

You need to install a Dictionary (FF add-ons), make sure it's enabled, and after you type a mis-spelled word, you should see a dotted line under it
If you right click, at the end of the word, you should see the correct spelling listed.

 

Ah, that how the spelling check works in my email (att - yahoo)

 

LOL What would she do? Beat me with a flower?roflmao

And YW.

 

Now stop that :mad :strong LOL
:grouphug

 

Shhh, he doesn't know rolleyes

 

Now, I'm worried!:eek