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Why is Firefox's spellcheck so BAD?!

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  • Strider590
    Strider590 Posts: 11,874 Forumite
    Oblivion wrote: »
    Shirley it carnt bee has bid has awl shat? Oh bigger ... I stink mie splellflucker is chucked two. :(

    When Firefox randomly reverts back to US/butchered English, it can be.....

    And don't call me Shirley :rotfl:


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  • London_Ash
    London_Ash Posts: 89 Forumite
    As others have noted, even with a FireFox extension, each time you update FireFox (this happens automatically very often), the language reverts back to English-US.

    Personally I would recommend Chrome and avoid this issue. As I believe they have built in dictionaries for all locales.
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  • Fightsback
    Fightsback Posts: 2,504 Forumite
    Don't know what you folks are doing but I have FF on multiple machines and various OS's and it never goes to US English for me.
    Science isn't exact, it's only confidence within limits.
  • RumRat
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    Yep, I'll second that, it's never reset to US dictionary on any update......for years...
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  • Fightsback
    Fightsback Posts: 2,504 Forumite
    London_Ash wrote: »
    Personally I would recommend Chrome and avoid this issue. As I believe they have built in dictionaries for all locales.

    I would recommend Chromium instead of Chrome, the opensource version:

    http://chromium.woolyss.com/
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  • RumRat
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    or Waterfox.....built for 64 bit machines and faster than firefox.
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  • Fightsback
    Fightsback Posts: 2,504 Forumite
    RumRat wrote: »
    or Waterfox.....built for 64 bit machines and faster than firefox.

    RR, Official 64bit FF builds now available for Windows. Currently in beta for FF 41 and expected to be released as stable for 41.0:

    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/beta/all/
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  • J_B
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    RumRat wrote: »
    Yep, I'll second that, it's never reset to US dictionary on any update......for years...

    I'll third that!
  • spud17
    spud17 Posts: 4,431 Forumite
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    What is this Firefox? :cool:

    I've never had the dictionary revert to US, and I used it for around 7 years.

    Nowadays it's Palemoon and/or Waterfox, :)

    I first used Waterfox years ago and didn't get on with it, that could have been because Firefox was also installed, now I find it much improved.

    I dropped Firefox 6 mths ago after one of it's updates didn't like some addons, changed layout, etc.....again.
    Move along, nothing to see.
  • RumRat
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    Fightsback wrote: »
    RR, Official 64bit FF builds now available for Windows. Currently in beta for FF 41 and expected to be released as stable for 41.0:

    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/beta/all/
    Lets hope it doesn't have a last minute delay - again....
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