Google Toolbar - Spell Checks PH Posts For You...

[im]

...or is this common knowledge already?

Only I've seen a lot of comments about PH perhaps needing a spell checker in the past but the Google Toolbar does that at the click of the 'Check' button.

[FourWheelDrift]

Installing an English dictionary to Firefox does the same thing without all the bloated extra Google analytics sending information about your surfing habits back to Google

[john_r]

Makes me laugh that Google Toolbar has an anti-spyware function... Yet that is exactly what Google Toolbar does!

[tog]

Or just use a Mac for a spellcheck built in to the OS...

[anonymous-user]

tog said:

Or just use a Mac for a spellcheck built in to the OS...

Mine corrects the British spelling of a word when an American spelling is available, can you change this?

[tog]

El stovey said:

tog said:

Or just use a Mac for a spellcheck built in to the OS...

Mine corrects the British spelling of a word when an American spelling is available, can you change this?

I got it working on my old mac, but remember how and it's US-biased on my new Mac. You can click on "learn spelling" each time it finds one, and it gradually does it less often as it learns new words.

[Polarbert]

john_r said:

Makes me laugh that Google Toolbar has an anti-spyware function... Yet that is exactly what Google Toolbar does!

Exactly the reason I've never installed it. I've always been tempted by toolbars, but never actually installed any.

[fluffnik]

tog said:

Or just use a Mac for a spellcheck built in to the OS...

...or any *nix with Gnome.

[sstein]

john_r said:

Makes me laugh that Google Toolbar has an anti-spyware function... Yet that is exactly what Google Toolbar does!

Correct! I wouldn't touch any Google product with a barge pole!

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Stuart