The perfect solution for people like me who always make typos in thier posts
By willocfc
@willocfc (963)
Australia
February 4, 2007 5:14pm CST
I use Mozilla Firefox as my primary browser as i find its the easiest to use, Yesterday i upgraded to the latest version 2.0 and it comes with a built in spell check, you don't even have to do anything, anytime you are typing anything on any page, if you misspell a word a red line comes up under the word, you simply right click on the word and it gives you a list of words to insert the correct spelling, Its perfect for me as i always write out a post of response and send it and then when i read it i notice all the typos, this way i can quickly fix them as i am typing and send it without having to worry about it, just wanted to share as i was so excited to find out about this new feature =)
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10 responses
@Bunny2 (2102)
• Australia
6 Feb 07
Sounds wonderful - because I can't count how many times I post my response and while it's hanging I notice the typos. Problem is my hubby tried Mozilla and had a similar problem to kitchenwitchoftupper. In fact more problems than that - wouldn't go into so many sites. Then we also had problems running Nortons, so many problems that we had to look for alternate virus protection. I don't know - maybe it's just us.
But I do like the Spell Check function on Mozilla. Maybe one day IE will have it too.
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@LightninStrike (5915)
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
6 Feb 07
willo one question....which version of firefox you have now exactly? let me know please , so that i can see if it's the one i have now or if i have to update myself ok? thanks
@AskAlly (3625)
• Canada
6 Feb 07
I know what you mean about catching the typos after you hit the send button. I always wonder if y'all think I'm illiterate or something. Haha I'll be AskAlly never won a spelling bee in her life? Just kidding. I should check this mozilla out.
@Geminigirl (1909)
• United States
4 Feb 07
Thanks for this info. I'm typing fast and I see that I make tons of spelling errors and it is really frustrating!
@LightninStrike (5915)
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
5 Feb 07
Once again, great post by you willo...it will be very helpful for many people.
So if i understood well, it works like an automatical completer, like when you're writing a text message on a cell phone? please let me know since i also use Firefox and i might be interested in knowing more about it.
Anyway, i wouldn't be me without my dear typos hehehe...but anyway it might be helpful for certain things, so i will wait for your reply, but thanks of advance
@LightninStrike (5915)
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
5 Feb 07
yeah, then it works in a similar way to the word completer of my cell phone, but without completing, just offers you a list of words....well sounds pretty cool! will have to give it a chance.
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@Myrrdin (3599)
• Canada
7 Feb 07
Firefox is great. I've been using it for years now. Version 2 is a great improvement to version 1 and I already loved version 1. I enjoy the addons you can add to it too, and the skins, but really the big benifits are the spellchecker (doesn't work quite the way you described on mac's, but still underlines anyways) and the security. Not nearly as many exploited holes in firefox as there are in IE.
@shoelover (896)
• Australia
4 Feb 07
Thankyou this will come in handy and make me seem less of a klutz.
@kitchenwitchoftupper (2290)
• United States
5 Feb 07
I've heard about what a wonderful browser this is but when I last had it downloaded it caused me quite a bit of problems. I went back to Explorer and it automatically upgraded to Explorer 7 and don't you know - problems with that! I couldn't enter a customer order on my Tupperware Web-site - A Definite Major Big Problem! I downloaded Netscape Browser because I had previously had the problems with Firefox and now I am sooosoooooo confused as to what I should do - should have done. My brain is scrambled and rattled. I just know that my computer is slowing down and my McAffee is running out in a matter of days and that's almost $70.00 and I want to cry to the hills!~Donna
@mdzafaruddin (879)
• India
6 Feb 07
Yes its a good thing to have a typos, atleast it will promt us to correct a spelling mistakes and also capital letters too, that a good idea i will also do that for me.Thanks for sharing this idea.
@LightninStrike (5915)
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
7 Feb 07
I've been trying to use it and i cannot seem to find it...can you tell me how to use it exactly?
