I Hope I'm Not the Only One

[forsyth]

Does anybody else find themselves using Google as a quick and dirty spellchecker when they don't want to stop and run a spellcheck or are using a web form or something without a spellcheck?

Comments

[dezro.livejournal.com]

Yes when I'm using Firefox 1.5, no when I'm using Firefox 2b1 or any Cocoa-based Mac program or anything else that can do spellchecking.

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

Firefox 2 beta's out? How is it?

[dezro.livejournal.com]

Surprisingly stable! And all my extensions work great after running them through Nightly Tester Tools and its compatibility fixer thing.

The main problem is the spellcheck dictionary is quite old. Almost every internet word you enter comes up as an error. Even 'Firefox'! The second problem is that the Google Feeling Lucky search in the URL bar is disabled for some reason, and I can't re-enable it.

They're saving all the cool new features for 3.0, but the ones that are there are nifty. Plus, there are less crashes on OSX! Woot!