Existing users, 
Firefox
web browser
Version: 3.0.4
Spell Checker
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: Cowicide Tuesday, November 08 2005 @ 10:37 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: NO
Firefox desperately needs a built-in inline form spell checker. I can't believe it doesn't have one already. The few extensions I could find that are supposed to do this (spellbound, etc.) are buggy as crap and/or don't work at all and aren't inline either. On Safari you can find spell tools in the edit menu and quickly pull it up with Shift-Command-; (semi-colon). Why oh why doesn't Firefox do something like this by now?
Spell Checker - CraigP
I couldn't agree more! There are two things stopping me moving across from Safari to Firefox for all my browsing, and the other is lack of integrated .Mac Bookmark syncing (again, the plugins I've seen that try to do this in Firefox are woefully inadequate compared to the comparable feature in Safari).What I actually think we need is a dedicated Firefox on Mac team, or at least a discussion board. There are so many core technologies in OS X now that could be used in Firefox (Keychain support is another), but that shouldn't be covered by the main Firefox team (who are concentrating on making a cross-platform generic browsing experience with the lower common denominators across all platforms).
I can't help but feel like Firefox on OS X is the poor sibling that has all the unrealised talent and ability, but because the other siblings aren't quite so bright, he's never really stretched to his full potential.
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Friday, November 11 2005 @ 06:47 AM PST