Spell checker suddenly appeared when posting here
Posted by: acad tsunami on 12 January 2007
A couple of people have told me they don't see an automatic spell checker when typing a post here but I do. Is this Adam trying to tell me something?
Of course it may be something to do with having updated my Mozila Firefox yesterday. Anyone else experiencing this new facility?
Posted on: 12 January 2007 by u5227470736789439
This could be very valuable for me! It has not appeared for me for all that. Fredrik!
Posted on: 12 January 2007 by Diccus62
Yeah I get a spell checker and I use Firefox
Diccus
Posted on: 12 January 2007 by acad tsunami
Diccus,
I only got it after upgrading to the latest version is that the one you have?
Acad
Posted on: 12 January 2007 by Beano
Posted on: 12 January 2007 by Roy T
Looks like an automatic spell checker with Firefox/2.0.0.1 , must have arrived a couple of days along with the latest security patch.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Posted on: 12 January 2007 by Diccus62
quote:
Originally posted by acad tsunami:
Diccus,
I only got it after upgrading to the latest version is that the one you have?
Acad
YUP
Diccus
Posted on: 12 January 2007 by BigH47
Nope
Posted on: 12 January 2007 by Alexander
Sounds a bit like something from Harry Potter.
Posted on: 12 January 2007 by acad tsunami
Well who wants to turn themselves into a frog by accident?
Posted on: 12 January 2007 by Guido Fawkes
if you use a Mac and Safari you can simply select check spelling as you type from the Edit menu.
Posted on: 13 January 2007 by Diccus62
Biggie might be right here. I have got spell check but not quite sure when it arrived. Maybe it was Santa?
Diccus
Posted on: 13 January 2007 by BigH47
How do you know you have the SC? Is there a button /drop down?
Howard
Posted on: 13 January 2007 by acad tsunami
Howard,
When you type in the box to compose a post and type incorrectly, the offending word is automatically underlined in red. This happened to me after upgrading my Firefox - I don't think it is a coincidence but I'm ready to be corrected.
Acad
Posted on: 13 January 2007 by BigH47
I thimk is't ont woking.
Posted on: 13 January 2007 by BigH47
I'm not sure I like the "feature" were if I click on link in a post it now opens a new tab.I am used to looking at the selected thread link and then hittin red cross to fall back to the original post. Of course doing that now asks if I want to close all open tabs and close down FF.
If it's a selectable feature what is it called?
Howard
Posted on: 17 January 2007 by Diccus62
quote:
When you type in the box to compose a post and type incorrectly, the offending word is automatically underlined in red. This happened to me after upgrading my Firefox - I don't think it is a coincidence but I'm ready to be corrected.
Mine does exactly the same. I can't ever remember altering my Firefox settings to have this included, but then again i can't remember entering a Swedish Girl Singer quiz either.
Diccus
Posted on: 17 January 2007 by SteveGa
Spell Checker is part of Firefox 2 and subsequent releases.
Mr Mozilla say:
"Spell Checking
Sometimes you’re in a rush, and can’t remember if it’s “i” before “e” or the other way around. Firefox 2 has built-in spell checking to keep you from making any mistakes in your blog posts and Web-based email, so you can worry about more important things."
If you like worrying about less important things go to Tools > Options > Main Tab > remove tick from "check my spelling as I type"
speling - interesting, I have Firefox 2.0.0.1 and you will note it has not checked/corrected my speling. So there is more to this than meets the eye.
And I was just getting round to wondering if Mozilla and
Godzilla are related?
Steve
Posted on: 17 January 2007 by SteveGa
quote:
Originally posted by Diccus62:
Diccus
Diccus - did you ask Joyce and Vicky if candy-floss is sticky?
Steve
Posted on: 17 January 2007 by Diccus62
No, but I..............
had a love affair with Nina
in the back of my Cortina
Not 'arf
Diccus
Posted on: 18 January 2007 by sceptic
a seasoned-up hyaena
could not have been more obscener
