Firefox's spellchecker is useless! Can it be improved?

esuhl

Firefox's British dictionaries are terrible! I've spent years adding words to it, and in almost every post I write, it still finds a new (perfectly valid) word that it doesn't recognise. At least I know I have a good vocabulary, I guess. :-/

Is there any way this can be improved? I searched a few times, thinking there must be loads of British English dictionaries you could add to Firefox, but I've come up empty handed.

Does anyone else have this problem? Is there anything that can be done to teach Firefox how to spell?

JJ_Egan

I gave up trying to get Firefox to smell proper.

John_Gray

Which dictionary version are you using? I've installed "British English Dictionary (Marco Pinto) 2.37" which has 158,641 words - surely enough for your legendary vocabulary?!

See http://marcoagpinto.cidadevirtual.pt/proofingtoolgui.html and http://marcoagpinto.cidadevirtual.pt/faq.html

RumRat

I'll second the Marco Pinto version.......Doesn't seem to throw up any regular problems.............https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/british-english-dictionary-2/?src=search
Apologies if you already have it, in which case I've no idea why it presents problems for you.

esuhl

Thanks. Looks like I have that one already. :-/ Here's what's installed:

• British English Dictionary (Updated) 1.19.6

• British English Dictionary (Marco Pinto) 2.37

John_Gray

Personally, I would remove the first on your list and see if that makes any positive difference...

J_B

It always makes me chuckle when it can't recognise Firefox!

Sicard

The problem usually lies with the fact the Americans don't know how to spell and even the UK English versions throw up Americanisms.

esuhl

John_Gray wrote: »

Personally, I would remove the first on your list and see if that makes any positive difference...

Well, I thought that might have fixed it, but I'm still having to teach Firefox new words. :-/

I mean... "unstretchable"...? Come on! That's definitely a word!!!

esuhl

Gah! Of course "liberalist" is a word, goddammit! Even if "gah" isn't...

kwikbreaks

Opera likes unstretchable but balks at liberalist which while doubtless perfectly correct is hardly in common usage.

If you know your words are both genuine words and correctly spelled why get upset over an underlining? I jest ignor rubish corections miself.