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

esuhl

kwikbreaks wrote: »

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

I suppose it's because I can spell, but I make a fair few typos. The only spellings I worry about are the ones that Firefox doesn't know!

And the red squiggles make me doubt myself!

Wiktionary knows these words. Why doesn't Firefox?

kwikbreaks

I haven't used Firefox in quite some time. Having spent maybe a couple of years with Chrome I moved on to my current favourite Opera and for the most part the only underlinings I see are from typos or plain simple misspellings which I realise when I check the suggestions. Maybe you need to experiment with a different browser if it irritates you that much and you can't find a decent dictionary.

[Deleted User]

Do you absolutely have to use Firefox?

I use Google Chrome, and find the spellchecker to be pretty good.

wongataa

esuhl wrote: »

I suppose it's because I can spell, but I make a fair few typos. The only spellings I worry about are the ones that Firefox doesn't know!

And the red squiggles make me doubt myself!

Wiktionary knows these words. Why doesn't Firefox?

See if there is a better dictionary available. Maybe add any missing words to the dictionary so in the future things are better?

esuhl

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Do you absolutely have to use Firefox?

Yes -- I have a number of Firefox-only add-ons and... I just like Firefox.

wongataa wrote: »

See if there is a better dictionary available. Maybe add any missing words to the dictionary so in the future things are better?

I've looked everywhere for better dictionaries, but they don't seem to exist. People have written thousands and thousands of add-ons for Firefox, but there's only the default British dictionary and the Marco Pinto one.

I have been adding words to the dictionary for months on end.

Maybe I should just turn the spellchecker off. I always disabled it until recently, and looked up words I wasn't sure of, as I didn't want the spellchecker to make me lazy and forget how to spell...

esuhl

I suppose I thought that there must be some open-source dictionary files somewhere, and a way to create a Firefox-compatible dictionary add-on from them...?

splishsplash

esuhl wrote: »

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!!!

Is it? Are you sure?

esuhl

splishsplash wrote: »

Is it? Are you sure?

Yeah... of course. Why wouldn't it be? It seems like a grammatically coherent variant of the stub "stretch".

Stretch is a verb meaning to draw out or extend. Stretchable is an adjective referring to something that is capable of being stretched. Unstretchable just means "not stretchable".

Stop making me doubt myself! :rotfl: I could spell just fine until I enabled the bloomin' spellchecker!

splishsplash

esuhl wrote: »

Yeah... of course. Why wouldn't it be? It seems like a grammatically coherent variant of the stub "stretch".

Stretch is a verb meaning to draw out or extend. Stretchable is an adjective referring to something that is capable of being stretched. Unstretchable just means "not stretchable".

Stop making me doubt myself! :rotfl: I could spell just fine until I enabled the bloomin' spellchecker!

I couldn't find it in any online dictionary, including the OED, so I just wondered.

Inelastic, inflexible, yes; no unstretchable anywhere that I can find :undecided.

esuhl

splishsplash wrote: »

I couldn't find it in any online dictionary, including the OED, so I just wondered.

Inelastic, inflexible, yes; no unstretchable anywhere that I can find :undecided.

It's at dictionary.com. I suspect it's missing from other sites due to it being a standard variant of "stretch".

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/unstretchable