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I've been happily using Firefox since 57 shipped. Loving the overall experience. I feel a bit petty for bringing this up, but what is up with Firefox's spellch

I've been happily using Firefox since 57 shipped. Loving the overall experience. I feel a bit petty for bringing this up, but what is up with Firefox's spellchecker? I came from Chrome so the spellcheck had a web-service which kept the word list current (slang and technical terms), but even ignoring that the Firefox spellcheck doesn't do a good job with the "basics." For example "That" misspelt as "Taht" (a & h transposed) and the solutions Firefox suggests are Tait, Baht, Taft, Ta ht, Ta-ht.

tzs 9y ago
Its out of the box spell checking is just terrible, at least on OS X compared to Chrome and Safari. Your example doesn't bother me too much, because at least it is right that the word is not spelled correctly. It is just not being great at suggesting replacements (although on my Mac it omits "Tait" and does suggest "That" at the end of the list, and if the misspelled word was "taht" rather than "Taht" then "that" is the first suggestion). What bothers me is that it frequently flags word as misspelled that are in fact correctly spelled. I'm using whatever dictionary is configured out of the box. There is an "add dictionary" option in the Languages sub-menu on the right-click pop-up in text areas, but I haven't yet gotten around to exploring that. The good news is that this is really the only beef I have with Firefox for ordinary use. Chrome still wins for a lot of development work, though, because of its multiple people feature. I can set up one person for each project, and easily switch between them, with each person having their own set of bookmarks, history, cache, cookies, and so on. Firefox can do that with multiple profiles, but if you want to use two profiles at once you have to launch two copies of the browser. That can then lead to confusion when other programs try to open a URL, either failing to open or opening in the wrong instance of Firefox.
- Someone1234 9y ago
  Grab Mozilla's "Multi-Account Containers"[0] add-on. Each container has its own self-contained session, session data, and cookies. Plus only a single window, different containers are just regular tabs, whereas in Chrome it is one window per profile. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
  - tzs 9y ago
    Those are good, but it doesn't look like you can have per-container bookmarks. With Chrome persons or Firefox profiles each identity has its own bookmarks. I wonder if one could write a bookmark manager extension for Firefox that would allow having named collections of bookmarks that could be saved and restored? And if so, would it be possible to make it so that a named set could be associated with a container account and automatically switch in that set whenever you are in a container for that account?
ronjouch 9y ago
Also, hoping works someday happens on a Multiple language friendly spellchecker [1]. That design -which is the one used in Chrome- is much more pleasant to use when frequently switching between languages (at the occasional cost of a bit of leniency, but to m(an)y eyes it's a very desirable tradeoff). [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69687 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69687

tzs 9y ago

Its out of the box spell checking is just terrible, at least on OS X compared to Chrome and Safari. Your example doesn't bother me too much, because at least it is right that the word is not spelled correctly. It is just not being great at suggesting replacements (although on my Mac it omits "Tait" and does suggest "That" at the end of the list, and if the misspelled word was "taht" rather than "Taht" then "that" is the first suggestion). What bothers me is that it frequently flags word as misspelled that are in fact correctly spelled. I'm using whatever dictionary is configured out of the box. There is an "add dictionary" option in the Languages sub-menu on the right-click pop-up in text areas, but I haven't yet gotten around to exploring that. The good news is that this is really the only beef I have with Firefox for ordinary use. Chrome still wins for a lot of development work, though, because of its multiple people feature. I can set up one person for each project, and easily switch between them, with each person having their own set of bookmarks, history, cache, cookies, and so on. Firefox can do that with multiple profiles, but if you want to use two profiles at once you have to launch two copies of the browser. That can then lead to confusion when other programs try to open a URL, either failing to open or opening in the wrong instance of Firefox.

Someone1234 9y ago
Grab Mozilla's "Multi-Account Containers"[0] add-on. Each container has its own self-contained session, session data, and cookies. Plus only a single window, different containers are just regular tabs, whereas in Chrome it is one window per profile. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
- tzs 9y ago
  Those are good, but it doesn't look like you can have per-container bookmarks. With Chrome persons or Firefox profiles each identity has its own bookmarks. I wonder if one could write a bookmark manager extension for Firefox that would allow having named collections of bookmarks that could be saved and restored? And if so, would it be possible to make it so that a named set could be associated with a container account and automatically switch in that set whenever you are in a container for that account?

ronjouch 9y ago

Also, hoping works someday happens on a Multiple language friendly spellchecker [1]. That design -which is the one used in Chrome- is much more pleasant to use when frequently switching between languages (at the occasional cost of a bit of leniency, but to m(an)y eyes it's a very desirable tradeoff). [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69687 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69687