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Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by takeda on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:42PM (#22059635)
> It also misses important features such as multilingual spell checking. For people writing in multiple languages it's a real PITA. I know this functionality can be added with an extension but it slows down FF too much IMO.

Really? Do you learn a new language every day? I installed languages that I am interested years ago and forgot about it until you mentioned it.

Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by flexd on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:53PM (#22059708)
A lot of us are bi-lingual. English is not my first language, so being able to use spell checking for my native language and English without things breaking is important to me.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by takeda on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @06:51PM (#22060190)
well, I'm bi-lingual as well, I only needed to install languages once. I don't want to have installed dictionary for every language under the sun. They do take space.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by GranPC on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:46PM (#22059661)
No, but some people write text in more than one language inside Firefox.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by takeda on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @06:52PM (#22060198)
you can add as many as you want (at least I didn't hit the limit) it's just 2 clicks for each and they are retained between upgrades, the parent issue is that Firefox doesn't come with every language installed by default.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by pier25 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:56PM (#22059749)
Yeah but you don't have spell checking on all these languages unless you manually switch between those.

I write in 4 languages so it's quite annoying to do that every time. In Chrome there is multilingual spell checking even when you mix languages in the same sentence.

Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by takeda on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @06:54PM (#22060215)
oh my bad, I misunderstood what he meant.