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Now firefox can spell for you!

Endurance Man · 2006-11-09 18:53:23

Posting this here because i feel the people of after hours need it most :p , with any luck I'll learn to speel Download Firefox version 2!! It has a spell checker like word :D. I know i'm an ass but my eyes burn when i read posts from people who sound intelligent and yet cant spell (or cant be bothered to spell correctly)…

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#32 10-11-2006 06:41PM

MrJoeSoap

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Diarmsquid wrote:

Not working for me. I don't see any box. And I downloaded it.

Try downloading the British English Dictionary from the Firefox plug-ins page.

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#33 10-11-2006 06:51PM

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Too bad it won't correct there/their mistakes - yet

'here, there and everywhere' is one way of remembering which one you want - the 'place' ones are all spelled the same.:D

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#34 10-11-2006 07:04PM

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MrJoeSoap wrote:

Not all that well...

Ye some words it cant correct even if they are very lose to the real word besides i don't know how to spell gramer grammer or whatever and Firefox does not offer the correct word

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#35 10-11-2006 07:38PM

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The spell checker is built in.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/

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#36 10-11-2006 07:46PM

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Not really suited to AH tbh

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#37 10-11-2006 08:00PM

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Not going to bother moving it, theres a number of threads on Firefox 2 in Comp/Tech already and it can be discussed further there.

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