I've been holding back on making the move to Firebird as my full time browser based on one reason. Spell Checking. IESpell is an amazing plugin for Internet Explorer and is something I can no longer live without and use daily. However, there is now an equal if not better solution for Firebird. Details on how to get this plugin are explained over at dennis.ca. Just click the links and allow it to install.
Move over IE, Firebird just moved into being the first item on my quick lunch bar.
Be sure to also check out the Web Developers toolbar.
One more thing. This post was created and spell checked in Firebird.
Comments
Peter Rukavina - February 5, 2004 8:08 pm
First, I would like a <B>quick lunch bar</B>: it would improve my efficiency dramatically.
Second, this appears not to work at all (other than seemingly installing just fine) with Firebird on a Mac, so I assume it relies on some sort of Windows voodoo.
Stephen DesRoches - February 5, 2004 11:22 pm
Very nice. I suppose a spell checker will only help me so much but to ensure that your comments continue to make sense, I will not fix my mistake in the above post to say "Quick Launch Bar".
Neil Turner - February 6, 2004 5:31 am
Welcome to the dark side Stephen :). Pity the add-on is merely a spellchecker and not a grammar checker.
Steven Garrity - February 6, 2004 10:51 am
Works on Linux. Very little about any of the mozilla apps is specific to any one platform, so I suspect the fact that is doesn't work on the mac (which I can confirm) is just a bug and will hopefully be fixed.
Chuck Grady - February 7, 2004 5:19 pm
Before: Jist ti tast thas damm spellchecking thang. Hew weil dos ot wirk?
After: Just ti test this damn spell checking thing. Hew well dos it work?
Spelled every word wrong. Found every correct word in the list provided. I believe this is actually better than any spell checker I've used before.
Apparently, ti, hew and dos are also words listed. If they were not I'm confident they would have been corrected as quickly and efficiently.
Thanks for the tip Steve.
Andrew - February 10, 2004 6:23 pm
<p>I've gotten Torisugari's textarea
spell checker extension to work with Firefox. My guess regarding the
problems that you are experiencing is that your new Firefox program
directory doesn't have the composer.xpt file in it's components
directory.</p>
<p>I've created a web log post titled Getting textarea spell checking to work with Firefox 0.8 that runs through the process i used to install Firefox.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.<br>
</p>
Andrew - June 20, 2004 10:03 am
I've gotten the spell check extension working with 0.9. You can read a detailed step-by-step of how I set it up.
Dotan Cohen - May 12, 2006 7:38 pm
This does not work with Firefox 1.5 :(
How can it be installed?