brcmville
Mar 25 2007, 07:41 AM
You are probably thinking from the get go that this is something that I should be discussing in the software forums, but honestly, it is something that I just discovered and its something new that I just learned, so it fits right in here as well. At least, technically it does! Anyways, I loaded up my Mozilla Firefox browser a few days back and an upgrade notice popped up. Normally, I don't think I have enough time to deal with the download and installation part so I just close it down without upgrading, but not today! Instead, I upgraded the browser and it took me about 1-2 minutes. So much for taking up all of my time right? When it got done downloading, it said the updates will take effect when I restarted the browser, so I closed it down and reopened it. The first thing I did was come to these forums and when I was making my post, I noticed that the words I misspelled had a line under them, just like in Microsoft word. So, I right clicked and lo and behold, a list of possible words came up! For people like me, a spell check is a must, and this is probably one of the best discoveries I have made for quite a while 
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Quatrux
Mar 25 2007, 07:49 AM
Well, this Discovery of yours was available for some time now  and personally, I was using Opera which had this feature for a long time, but I like the Opera browser method much more, because when you want to check spell you usually just choose it from menu, because not always I want my words to be spell checked in the textarea, due to I post on forums not only in English language, but in other languages too, so using Firefox with that feature on sometimes is annoying. I always am thinking, why couldn't browsers use a built-in textarea which would have its own undo button and similar options? Due to sometimes it is really useful and those javascript ones sometimes is slow and they aren't available on every site. 
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brcmville
Mar 25 2007, 08:00 AM
If I had known that Firefox had this feature for so long, I would have upgraded much sooner. I cannot believe that I have been so deprived... (And spelling weird as "wierd" for years) 
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pyost
Mar 25 2007, 09:35 AM
Well, look at that I must have switched this feature off some time in the past, since a large part of my posts isn't in English. If that weren't the case, I'd probably be using it all the time. However, when I'm at Astahost or some other English-speaking board, I tend to use the spelling check Google Toolbar has - by clicking only one button, it checks all the text entered on page in different text boxes. It is good because there is no on/off setting, so you can use it only when you want. Actually, I used it right now 
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vizskywalker
Mar 25 2007, 11:18 AM
I really didn't begin to appreciate that feature until recently. My college has several e-mail lists, some of which are slightly formal and official. It's so much easier to have Firefox run spell check on my emails as I write them than to have to manually click a spell check button. And after getting chewed out a couple times for forgetting to spell check, those red lines are a friend of mine. It does annoy me how they hate my name, and anything relating directly to code though. ~Viz
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Omkar™
Mar 25 2007, 05:42 PM
Well, 2 months back, I should be saying, "Yeah! It sure does!" Anyway, it was much of a nice discovery, and one of the very few ones that are actually helpful!
It was a sad thing though, that Firefox 1.5+ didn't have an extension for spell-checking! I remember there was only one SpellBound™, but it didn't match the standards of a Firefox extension! For all these years (ahem, true to be exaggerated for a couple of months) I was using the Google Toolbar to spell-check my web forms.
Adding yet another dimension to the 'betterness' of Firefox2! Keep up the good work, dear Mozilla!
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brcmville
Mar 25 2007, 07:38 PM
Until I upgraded to Firefox 2, I wouldn't have really considered a spell check that big of a deal because I figured my spelling was just fine and it would be more of a nuisance than anything else. If anyone hasn't tried it for similar reasons, they are seriously missing out. I am not a fan of Google Tool bars because they usually come packed in with some other software and install on your computer without much notice or even any. It really makes me mad when I load up internet explorer and I have Google tool bar installed when I clearly didn't install it willingly. My computer never has any pop-ups either, so the entire bar was pretty much useless for me.
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vizskywalker
Mar 25 2007, 08:25 PM
The one thing that standpoints me about the spellcheck is that it only applies to text fields. There is no way to spell check a web page or to spellcheck a text box. I mean, I see (and have made) more typos in titles of threads that could easily be fixed with spellcheck. Granted you can right-click the text-box to enable spellcheck, but it's so much of a nuisance that I never do. ~Viz
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Orca239
Mar 25 2007, 11:24 PM
Spell check is a pretty good feature to have in a web browser, especially considering some of the people you run into that takl leik thiz, lol. It's not a big enough deal for me to switch to FireFox though. I tried FireFox a while back, and couldn't stand it. I don't see why so many people are so... passionate? about it. (Weird thing to be passionate about btw, lol).
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brcmville
Mar 26 2007, 02:45 AM
I am not passionate about Firefox, but I really do enjoy using it. I have seen what you have seen as well though. All of those people running around promoting Firefox like it was a religion. There are many features that are far superior to internet explorer so my guess is thats the real reason people are so passionate about it. I was reluctant to switch from internet explorer but when I learned how to make use of tabbed browsing, I was hooked. IE 7 came out with it but it seems so clunky and doesn't work so well for me. I just figured out that you can turn off the spell check like two minutes ago, which is weird. So much for the argument that it gets in the way when typing in a different language; all you have to do is simply right click and turn it off!
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Heave Projects
Jun 21 2008, 06:31 PM
I use firefox three, it does have Dutch spellcheck. I should go and see in options how to change it to english.
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LegallyHigh
Jun 20 2008, 09:17 PM
I also noticed this as Firefox 2 became available, and it is a very useful feature, especially for sites like this (Astahost Forums) where I type a lot, and of course make a lot of mistakes. In response to Quatrux I actually like the automated spell check, instead of asking the program to check my spelling for me. I can ignore words I spelled incorrectly for reasons such as slang, or what not, however I hate forgetting to run a spell check and then looking stupid because I have many mispelled words.
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RunninXC
May 27 2008, 12:49 AM
Haha, yeah. I actually hate the spell check in Firefox 2 though... Anyone else find #2 to be a little lackluster? I've had alot of problems with it, I don't think I've been able to say I ever had any issues with the original. Somebody on the first page mentioned you can turn it off though I guess I can go ahead and do that. I found a download link for the old version over here http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox/2743/ for anyone else interested... I think I might downgrade at some point. I'll see how version #3 pans out first.
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toby
May 20 2008, 06:53 PM
As far as I know, FF has spellchecker and voice by default. These are large addons. Opera has them as optional downloads, while having much smaller things by default.
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iGuest
May 16 2008, 12:31 AM
Humbug.
Firefox 2 Has A Spell Check!
...More than just a wee smidgin of snobbery attached to that post...They "lol" betrayed the delusion of adequecy about you though...Aye..Some people.. -reply by Gaelforce
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