Easy spell-checking Firefox 2 feature

While some of you may already have noticed this, I’d like to repeat it again here and say that the built-in spell checker with Firefox 2.0 is just awesome. This is prolly one of the best tools for a blogger right now — real-time spell-checking.

I’m the kind of blogger who clicks the Publish button before editing the entry for grammar errors and typos. It’s been a habit of mine since like forever. I may even find typos as far back as a month ago and I’d still correct them. Yeah, embarrassing at times but hey that’s why I started blogging in the first place — to learn from my mistakes (and I’d be the first to admit I flunked the English entrance exam test in AdMU).

Ok, going back to Firefox’s spell-checker.

If you’ll notice in the screen shot of this post above, the words which are suspect to wrong spelling are in red dotted underlines. If you right click on that word, you’d get the correct spelling or sometimes a list of suggested words for replacement. Clicking on one of the listed terms will replace the existing one you wrote down.

If you know that the word is spelled correctly but is not in the Dictionary (could be acronym, slang, non-English), there’s an option there to also add it to the dictionary.

That’s it! No extensions needed to install and no pop-ups or browser windows to deal with. Runs smoothly.