Comments on: Thunderbird gets a new spell checker, Firefox may follow

By: John Spencer

John Spencer — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:03:06 +0000

The thunderbird spell checker is dead in the water.
you have to recheck line after line after line cos the thunderbird
spell checker just looks at your words and goes huh what.
Jeez there it is, TOOLs composition, you tick the box and zip.
Dead as a dodo doo doo nothing. God make another one
that works or something, it’s a piece of ap.

The only thing it’s good at is making you look like a tit.

By: nick mcaman

nick mcaman — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:04:36 +0000

My spell checker finds nothing as well. Am I doing something wrong?

By: chris Patton

chris Patton — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:43:56 +0000

I have just downloaded thunderbird and it works perfectly with one exception. The spellchecker simply is inactive. I tryed to download load it from monzilla without sucess. What can I do/ You can probbably tell from ths that my speling is atrocious. All advice welcome Chris.

By: A deep look to Firefox 3 Beta 3 : Mozilla Links

A deep look to Firefox 3 Beta 3 : Mozilla Links — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:27:47 +0000

[...] MySpell spell-checking engine has been replaced with Hunspell which does a better job handling complex languages including Asians, Hungarian, Basque, [...]

By: Richard Davis

Richard Davis — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:22:06 +0000

The spelling check in Firefox is far from perfect.

Firstly they offer no help to the bad typist. Since we are all typists now - and untrained in the main - we have more typing errors than spelling errors - and so-called spell checkers should take account of this.

I often mistype “Politics” as “POlitics” but the spell-checker is no help here. Firefox would be better with a better spelling and typing checker - and a way for people to add their own suggestions as to the word they meant to type

By: Jim Dodgen

Jim Dodgen — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:05:16 +0000

Any way to get the spell checker to weight the first character higher when giving suggestions?
example:

“asitance” comes back with “hesitance” and other derivatives when I missspell “assistance”

“dirivitives” offers up “primitiveness” when MS Outlook finds “derivatives” as the first hit.

By: Robert Boland

Robert Boland — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:29:27 +0000

My spell checker finds nothing. I have the spell checker turned on (Tools/options/composition) but it fails to find even the simplest misspelled word.

By: Tim R

Tim R — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:27:27 +0000

Thunderbird spell check seems to run but never finds any errors. Have I installed it incorrectly? How can I tun spell checking on?

By: Dafin Aziz

Dafin Aziz — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:32:30 +0000

Can they please add a transparent(variable opacity?) spell check window. It would help a lot, eg when seeing sentences in context etc.

By: Andrew Shumate

Andrew Shumate — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:36:53 +0000

Good… I always thought Firefox’s Spell Check was horrible. (For instance: I just misspelled SPELL as speel and spell was not a suggestion.

By: David Naylor

David Naylor — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:33:51 +0000

Morphological analysis… does that mean that it will be … umm … smarter?

By: Kernel Source » Blog Archive » Cambio de corrector ortográfico en Thunderbird

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:10:50 +0000

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By: New Spell Check For TBird 3 « Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog

New Spell Check For TBird 3 « Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:46:26 +0000

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