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Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by _joel on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:26AM (#42697581)
Strange, been using it since inception, but since 2019 I can probably could on one hand the times I couldn't use firefox and had to crack open chrome/safari/whatever. It's usally been overly zealous ublock rules that have stopped me, but easily fixed and nothing to do with firefox.
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Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by tzs on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @08:09PM (#42706148)
Question for all you people who have used Firefox before 2022: how did you deal with its poor spell checking?

I used it for a few years, but sometime around the end of 2021 I switched to Chrome because I got tired of the Firefox spell checker marking correctly spelled words as incorrectly spelled.

Here's a list of words I reported in 2020 and 2021 on the open issue they keep in their bug tracker for this problem:

ad hominem, algorithmically, all-nighter, another's, auditable, automata, backlight, ballistically, blacksmithing, bubonic, cantina, chewable, coaxially, commenter, conferenced, counterintuitive, dominator, epicycle, ethicist, exonerations, ferrite, fineable, hatchling, impaction, implementer, implementor, inductor, initializer, intercellular, irrevocability, licensor, lifecycle, manticore, massless, measurer, meerkats, micropayments, mischaracterization, misclassification, misclassified, mistyped, mosquitos, partygoers, passthrough, per se, phosphine, plough, pre-programmed, preprogrammed, programmability, prosecutable, recertification, responder, retransmission, rotator, seatbelt, sensationalistic, shapeshifting, solvability, spectrogram, splitter, subparagraphs, subtractive, surveil, survivorship, synchronizer, tradable, tradeoffs, transactional, trichotomy, tunable, underspecified, untraceably, untyped, verifiability, verifier, webmail

It was kind of puzzling because Firefox actually uses the same open source spell check engine that Google, Apple, LibreOffice, and many others use, and all those others had no trouble with any of the words that Firefox got wrong. This suggests that it might just be a dictionary problem and Firefox could simply grab the dictionary that say LibreOffice uses.

I mentioned that on one of my comments in the bug tracker and a developer said they were going to look into it but I don't know if anything ever came from that. All the words I reported now work but I don't know if they just added those to their dictionary or switched to a better dictionary.

Maybe I'll try doing my HN commenting from Firefox for a while and see if is fixed.

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Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by paulcapewell on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @02:39AM (#42708372)
On Firefox v134 with British English dictionary, I pasted your wordlist into a text box and I get only the following marked as misspelled:

hominem, implementor, plough, passthrough, seatbelt, underspecified, untraceably, untyped

The rest are all fine. (Plough is especially weird!)

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