(Mac version of) Firefox spellchecker sucks
So many words are just flat-out missing. Worse, it seems like every so often, a word that I swear I've typed recently shows up missing again. Maybe downloading updates every so often changes the core dictionary, and a word I was used to using gets dropped from the list until I manually re-add it to the custom dictionary. Maybe I only thought I'd recently used it, or maybe I really used it in a whole other application and had to add it there also. I honestly don't know.
Usually its something semi-technical and sort of a forgivable error, but sometimes its just plain annoying. Like "divorcee".. thats a word almost all of us know. What the fuck, firefox? Stuck in 1908 again, when divorce was unheard of and a divorcee would be someone to shun?
Today, it underlined "snuck" as a misspelling. Yeah, maybe if it were 1908 instead of 2008. Google has it as an underlined word. Who the fuck are these people, anyways, to say "snuck" isn't a word or is misspelled?
I strongly get the feeling this software either relies on a formerly copyrighted dictionary who's original author has been dead at least the mandatory 75 years and is therefore extremely obsolete outside of a mashup of changes patched in by a few key open-source nerds, or a public domain one published by some pompous prick who has decided that they know the only one true, right way to spell a word.
Either way, its pretty fucked up.
The suggestions it gives are absolutely horrible too. For example, if I misspell bulletin, my suggested spellings are as follows (four examples provided):
Excuse me, but.. WHAT THE FUCK?!? Would it be too much to assume that the word I was trying to spell might be something at least vaguely similar to the actual word, and maybe even, like, actually start with the same letter?
This is one thing that Apple seems to have done a hell of a lot better with, in Safari.
The Safari spellchecker doesn't completely suck ass.
Usually its something semi-technical and sort of a forgivable error, but sometimes its just plain annoying. Like "divorcee".. thats a word almost all of us know. What the fuck, firefox? Stuck in 1908 again, when divorce was unheard of and a divorcee would be someone to shun?
Today, it underlined "snuck" as a misspelling. Yeah, maybe if it were 1908 instead of 2008. Google has it as an underlined word. Who the fuck are these people, anyways, to say "snuck" isn't a word or is misspelled?
I strongly get the feeling this software either relies on a formerly copyrighted dictionary who's original author has been dead at least the mandatory 75 years and is therefore extremely obsolete outside of a mashup of changes patched in by a few key open-source nerds, or a public domain one published by some pompous prick who has decided that they know the only one true, right way to spell a word.
Either way, its pretty fucked up.
The suggestions it gives are absolutely horrible too. For example, if I misspell bulletin, my suggested spellings are as follows (four examples provided):
Excuse me, but.. WHAT THE FUCK?!? Would it be too much to assume that the word I was trying to spell might be something at least vaguely similar to the actual word, and maybe even, like, actually start with the same letter?
This is one thing that Apple seems to have done a hell of a lot better with, in Safari.
The Safari spellchecker doesn't completely suck ass.