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Re:When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Googl... by shadowgovt on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @12:38PM (#24839443)
> for some inexplicable reason

Google has a huge collection of data sources (search query correction, document translation engines, the Books project) to refine a spellchecker against.

The open-source solutions have never had access to that volume of data, to my knowledge.

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Re:When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Googl... by tzs on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:29PM (#24841426)
LibreOffice is open source, and uses Hunspell. Here is how the three word lists in the earlier comment I linked to do in that.

1. On the list of words Firefox gets wrong that I've reported but haven't yet been fixed, LibreOffice gets them all right.

2. On the list of words that I indirectly reported quite a bit earlier that Firefox now gets right, LibreOffice gets one wrong ("heliocentrism", which Chrome also gets wrong, and MacOS gets right).

3. On the list of words that Firefox gets wrong that I have not yet reported, LibreOffice gets them all right.

I don't call Firefox's terrible spelling inexplicable because Google and Apple and Microsoft do much better. I call it inexplicable because LibreOffice does it much better (about as good as Google and Apple and Microsoft do it).

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