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OK the new spell check in Firefox is just awesome!!!... but does anyone else find it odd that they didn't include Firefox in the dictionary. The fact that it doesn't find the spelling of its own name is kind of disconcerting.

Plus yes you have no excuse not to be using Firefox now or to spell stuff incorrectly. But you are more than welcome to have grammar even worse than mine :)

OK the new spell check in Firefox is just awesome!!!... but does anyone else find it odd that they didn't include Firefox in the dictionary. The fact that it doesn't find the spelling of its own name is kind of disconcerting.

Plus yes you have no excuse not to be using Firefox now or to spell stuff incorrectly. But you are more than welcome to have grammar even worse than mine :)

firefox->Firefox in my spell checker. Version 2.0.0.1 for windows

and where is this found?

I use it, and it's handy, but some times it's suggestions for misspellings are completely different than the word you have or are trying to spell.


But hey, it figured out my mangled version of Taxonomic earlier today.

My favourite spellchecker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_brain)

I like the Firefox spell checker, but it took me forever to find an Australian English dictionary for it. Now that I've got one, it's confirming what I already knew - my spelling abilities are super orgasmic awesome :p

Firefox with a capital F is in the dictionary if you use American English. However, it's not in the Canadian English, which I prefer using.

I like the Firefox spell checker, but it took me forever to find an Australian English dictionary for it. Now that I've got one, it's confirming what I already knew - my spelling abilities are super orgasmic awesome :p

Ah cool .. where did you find the Aussie dictionary? I am using British english at the moment (the British doesn't have Firefox in it, the same way the Canadian doesn't... maybe its an American english thing only) though the to make matters even more confusing the British english version only has the upper case english. I thought that english the language was lower case?

English as a proper name of a language is to be capitalized always.

My favourite spellchecker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_brain)

Yeah but not all of us have a fully functional one of those...

English as a proper name of a language is to be capitalized always.
Cool that's what I love about NSG learn something new everyday :)

Firefox has a spell-checker? :eek:

and where is this found?

Comes standard in Firefox v 2 (http://www.mozilla.com/en/firefox/)

Comes standard in Firefox v 2 (http://www.mozilla.com/en/firefox/)

Are you sure? I had to download one, and now I can't find it...

Are you sure? I had to download one, and now I can't find it...

yeah pretty sure... it might have come in one of their updates I am on version 2.0.0.1 .. but I don't have an add-on.

Works just like in word underlining words you misspelled in a field in red. You can right click to turn it on or off in a field. Or you can right click the red underlined word for a list of (not very good) suggestions.

yeah pretty sure... it might have come in one of their updates I am on version 2.0.0.1 .. but I don't have an add-on.

Works just like in word underlining words you misspelled in a field in red. You can right click to turn it on or off in a field. Or you can right click the red underlined word for a list of (not very good) suggestions.

Yeah that's what I had. It is in the 2.0.0.1 update, by the way - as an option. I downloaded the add on for my laptop before the update was released, but they appear to have incorporated it. This PC now has it. Mystery solved!

I don't like it much. Despite my language being set as British English in both Firefox and Windows, it still insists on claiming Americanisms are correct.

Konqueror already could do that since QUITE a while... Even differ between American and British English as well as beween old and revised German spelling.

Comes standard in Firefox v 2 (http://www.mozilla.com/en/firefox/)
o rly? I'm using firefox 2, yet I can't find a spellcheck.

o rly? I'm using firefox 2, yet I can't find a spellcheck.

Right click in a text field, like the box when you go to post, and click "spell check this field"

I don't like it much. Despite my language being set as British English in both Firefox and Windows, it still insists on claiming Americanisms are correct.

And mine, oddly enough, has some of the British terms as correct. I'll have to check and see what it's set to.

OK the new spell check in Firefox is just awesome!!!... but does anyone else find it odd that they didn't include Firefox in the dictionary. The fact that it doesn't find the spelling of its own name is kind of disconcerting.

Plus yes you have no excuse not to be using Firefox now or to spell stuff incorrectly. But you are more than welcome to have grammar even worse than mine :)
i've had a similar issue with GAIM. no matter how i capitalise it, it won't find it in it's dictionary. the only drawback to gaim...

I've seen the Firefox spell checker let some pretty shaky words past.

Though if I at all cared, I would setup Aspell to do the spell checking.

I don't like it much. Despite my language being set as British English in both Firefox and Windows, it still insists on claiming Americanisms are correct.
I'm using those as well and humour humor yep it works the right way round for me. It could be you downloaded the American dictionary, as I had the option of two...
o rly? I'm using firefox 2, yet I can't find a spellcheck.
ya rly I couldn't find an add-on, where I previously could - but when I updated to 2.0.0.1, there was the option to add an English language spellchecker as part of the update.

Ah cool .. where did you find the Aussie dictionary?

I searched the Firefox website for add-ons, and this was one of them. It took a while to find though - it was hidden away.