Lost without a spellchecker!
By petersum
@petersum (4522)
United States
August 21, 2011 4:01pm CST
I don't know what went wrong but somehow my browser lost it's spellchecker add-on. So for two days, I have been posting God knows what sort of comments! You kind of get used to seeing that red squiggly line and without it, everything looks odd - it's as if you suddenly became word blind.
So I downloaded it again since I finally noticed that it was missing, and now sanity has hopefully returned.
So, do you have it installed? For Firefox it is an extension called "United States English Spellchecker". Other browsers have a similar add-on.
I need it a lot and I'm a natural English speaker! If English isn't your first language, you can learn a lot from it as well as correcting your spelling.
Do you have it and does it help you?
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3 responses
@Angelee_27 (3460)
• United States
21 Aug 11
My friend was using Internet Explorer as their browser, and they did not have spell checker. So, I recommended they download FireFox, which already has spellchecker when you download it. 
That is the easiest way in my opinion. 
However, I am sure you could browse the internet for add-ons for browsers other than FireFox. Just be careful, and only download from trusted sites! 
That is the easiest way in my opinion.
However, I am sure you could browse the internet for add-ons for browsers other than FireFox. Just be careful, and only download from trusted sites! @stary1 (6612)
• United States
21 Aug 11
TY petersum and Angelee..
Well wouldn't you know
..LOL I use Internet Explorer..and I don't want to change that because I am not very up on the computer and don't want to scew things up. Sometimes I just type it in my Word program and cut and paste from there..but I don't always...
..LOL I use Internet Explorer..and I don't want to change that because I am not very up on the computer and don't want to scew things up. Sometimes I just type it in my Word program and cut and paste from there..but I don't always...
@ladym33 (10979)
• United States
28 Aug 11
We have something I don't know what it is but if you spell a word wrong it will come out with a line underneath it so you know you spelled it wrong, but it does not tell you what the correct spelling is. Most of the time it is just a typo, but once in a while something is not spelled correctly and I have to look up the correct spelling on dictionary.com.
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
27 Aug 11
I go haywire without the spellchecker. Since English is not my mother's tongue, I have to rely heavily on this spellchecker to come up with the correct English spellings as I am a little confused sometimes on which spellings are supposed to be internationally recognized - British or American English. Looks like the internet is more comfortable with the American English. Even with the correct spelling but spelled in British English the red line will appear to show its objection. 
