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Such spell checking will be built-in to the Mozilla core with Gecko 1.8, and this will also appear in Camino as a result.

If it wood get the grammar nazis off of my back - yes.
The "check as you type" spell checking in Evolution is great - I use it all the time.
It would be great to have a *working* extension as part of firefox (all of them so far have been buggy).

I want it to use my system aspell disctionary though, not a mozilla provided dictionary. If I have added a word while spell checking on the command line, I want my browser spell checker to know about it.

MacBoy4139 wrote:

Spelling and grammar are different things.

Of course they are - but it's the grammar nazis that go after spelling.

Well, rereading the post thread the Linux dictionary problem was probably because I installed the extension as a user, not root.

Also I have just discovered that getting the menu for corrections doesn't work on OS X.  It's supposed to be control-left click, but since on OS X that is equivalent to a right-click, it doesn't work.  If you're willing to modify the extension's code, there's a hack to change it to use alt (option?)-left click instead.  I'm about to try it.  It's on the second reply on this page of the thread:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic … ;start=135

EDIT:

Following the directions worked, I now get the correction list with option-left click.  Since his directions are a little vague, here's how I did it:

1. Open Terminal.
2. $ cd ~/Library/Applicaiton\ Support/Firefox/Profiles/default.vl1/extensions/spellbound@exchangecode/chrome
3. $ unzip spellbound.jar
4. Now you'll have three folders: content, locale, and skin.  In the folder content is a file called inlineSpellCheck.js.  Open that file using whatever text editor you like.  I used TextWrangler.  Find the function onClickHandler which starts on line 265.  Specifically, change line 268 from aEvent.ctrlKey to aEvent.altKey.  Now save the file.  Throw away the original spellbound.jar (or just move it somewhere safe), then go back to Terminal.
5. $ jar c content local skin > spellbound.jar
6. Delete the content, locale, and skin folders.
7. Restart Firefox, and then go to a web form (like the MacAddict post form ), type something misspelled, and then option-click to get the suggestions.

Last edited by hawaiian717 (2006-02-09 11:41 pm)

Supposedly Firefox 2.0 has this feature built in as standard. It would be nice if it worked.

I'm using FF 2.x and it has "check as I hunt and peck" spell checking. I have no idea when it appeared but it is here now.

Merry Christmas?

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Why was this bumped? Yes, Firefox has had check-as-you-type spell checking since the launch of Firefox 2.

Last edited by Bassguy (2006-12-24 2:03 pm)

Bassguy wrote:

Why was this bumped? Yes, Firefox has had check-as-you-type spell checking since the launch of Firefox 2.

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/271/ … jw5.th.png

MAF has all the mods it needs right now but..hey..thanks for playing.

Pariah wrote:

Bassguy wrote:

Why was this bumped? Yes, Firefox has had check-as-you-type spell checking since the launch of Firefox 2.

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/271/ … jw5.th.png

MAF has all the mods it needs right now but..hey..thanks for playing.

Warning retracted as a Christmas present. -Sci

Zombei!!!!

ScifiterX wrote:

Pariah wrote:

Bassguy wrote:

Why was this bumped? Yes, Firefox has had check-as-you-type spell checking since the launch of Firefox 2.

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/271/ … jw5.th.png

MAF has all the mods it needs right now but..hey..thanks for playing.

Take your own advice and stop being a jerk thank you.

Hmmmmm....maybe one more than necessary