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The one thing that prevents me from switching to Firefox is the spell checker. Like many non-native English people, I'm constantly switching between languages w
by ar7hur 7y ago
The one thing that prevents me from switching to Firefox is the spell checker. Like many non-native English people, I'm constantly switching between languages when typing. Chrome is smart with that, and detects the right language sentence per sentence. Is there a way to have FF do this? Did I miss something?
- overcast 7y agoI'm assuming Chrome is reporting back to Google everything you're typing. Privacy is probably what's holding Firefox back.
- yoz-y 7y agoIn Chrome you can choose if you want to use an offline or online spellcheck. Offline is on by default.
- snazz 7y agoSimilarly, the auto-translate (which Firefox is finally getting) is insanely useful if you ever browse a website that isn’t in a language you can read. I’d be interested in how both features can be implemented in a privacy-preserving way.
- geraltofrivia 7y agoThis is on HN frontpage right now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21321430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21321430
- mda 7y agoNo. Default is Hunspell based offline spell checkers, since the beginning of Chrome.
- m4lvin 7y agoIt seems there are add-ons for this :-) https://github.com/kimsey0/FirefoxAutoDict https://github.com/kimsey0/FirefoxAutoDict
- ahbyb 7y agoThis is the kind of thing that should be built-in instead of Monitor, Pocket, etc. :(
- MentallyRetired 7y agoThey help pay the bills, so I don't mind addons like pocket even if I don't use it.
- stevenhubertron 7y agoas an english only speaker I have no need for a feature like this to be built in. I get much more out of monitor. So perhaps neither should be built in by default?
- pier25 7y agoI installed it, but this should be solved at the native level and not on JS.
- lisper 7y agoWhat difference does it make?
- ProfessorLayton 7y agoHaving features function by default matters a lot in regards to user adoption. A very large portion of users will never change their default settings, let alone discover and install an add on for something Chrome has by default. Here’s an article by Mozilla stating the power of default settings: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/when-it-comes-to-privacy-default-settings-matter/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/when-it-comes-to-pr...
- nnutter 7y agoOne aspect is having to maintain double dictionaries. Back in the early Mac OS X days the system-wide dictionary was one of the little features that made me happy.
- LoSboccacc 7y agonot a great solution but dictionaries are simple files and you can merge them into the one you consider to be your main language
- squiggleblaz 7y agoWell, I mean, "do" is an English word, "de" is an Esperanto word and "di" is an Indonesian word. I'd rather they get marked as wrong in the wrong language. (If I'm mixing languages, which I do on my phone often enough in text messages, whatever; but then I don't care about spelling anyway.)
- aashcan 7y agoThere used to be the Dictionary Switcher addon, but doesn't work >v57. An alternative I found was https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/automatic-spelling-language/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/automatic-spe...
- ronjouch 7y agoPlease vote and/or speak up (constructively, no "mee too" comments please) on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69687 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69687
- pier25 7y ago> Opened 19 years ago Edit: I commented on Bugzilla I hope everyone does the same.
- dblohm7 7y agoGo ahead and vote if you wish, but please do not add “me too” comments to our bug tracker.
- ronjouch 7y agoThanks for the reminder. I edited my above message to reflect the same sentiment.
- thw0rted 7y agoLOL forever @ "opened 19 years ago"
- pier25 7y agoYes that's probably the most annoying thing in FF. Chrome does spell checking even when you mix multiple languages in the same sentence.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoWeird, Chrome (specifically Electron) always gets confused when I speak English and Spanish all at once and Slack just starts to say everything I spell in English is wrong, it kinda annoys me. I don't think I have experienced this on Firefox.
- grantcarthew 7y agoHave a look at https://www.grammarly.com https://www.grammarly.com
- KitDuncan 7y agoWhether it is on Chrome, Firefox, Android or in my text editor, I'll always disable spell checking. I am also not a native english speaker and seeing those red underlines everywhere is just way too annoying for me.
- reportgunner 7y agoHonest question, where does one use a spellchecker in the browser ?
- ht_th 7y agoAll text-based input fields. Like this text-area element I am typing in now. But also for elements with the contentEditable attribute set to true. This is one of the features I appreciate a lot. I am not a native speaker of the English language, and I sometimes mix British English and USA English, and the spell-checker helps me to write consistently better messages.
- reportgunner 7y agoThank you for the explanation! I myself (not a native speaker) am very pedantic about setting all my software to enUS and turn all spell checking off. (I can't even stand the linter underline in VS for example, it ruins my focus, especially when it underlines as I type and then lags before disappearing at the end of the word) The only place where I use spellcheck is e-mail at work to avoid typos. Over the years I've learned to proofread my messages before sending them and touch typing helps a ton as well.
- louiz 7y agoIn the textarea where you just entered your question...