Even the earliest spell checkers were better! I write a lot on here to keep my sanity and several times a day I’m sure my spelling is correct but it gets flagged. About 6 of 7 times, I was right to begin with. Sigh. “Add to Dictionary”

Hadn’t been on Firefox for well over a decade and the Chrome engine turning to crap brought me home. Is there something I should add to fix this? Chrome was nearly flawless, as is every word processor out there. Just can’t get my head around how awful Firefox is at spell check, feel I must must be doing something wrong.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 days ago

    Only example top of mind was “softshell” as in the turtle. It’s also a type of clothing. Firefox disagrees.

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      5 days ago

      iOS doesn’t agree either and autocorrects to “soft shell” with a space