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[Agurus]

Well looks like they out did IE again, built in spell checker
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I'm assuming you never played with the release clients?

[The Apache]

it doesn't seem any different to me.

[Doc Flabby]

the anti phishing is impressive.
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[z.alpha+]

the spell check is good enough for me to almost wet myself.

seems to run faster too, but most people probably wouldn't notice unless they really tax out their systems.

[SamHughes]

It's nice because now it understands OS X's standard textbox keybindings.

[BDwinsAlt]

I kind of miss my old themes and extensions, but this is pretty nice. I don't feel like going through all my old extensions and modifying them. I love the spell check though!

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[BDwinsAlt]

I looked all over for that in FireFox2. I didn't see it. Maybe there is another easy way to 'rig' it.

Edit: You basically create that in about:config to make it work, I see now.
I speed-read through your post, sorry.

[Quan Chi2]

FF 2 doesn't seem faster at all. At the beginning it did, but that was just my mind.

[CypherJF]

I noticed it's a bit speeder for me because I don't need as many extensions as before (ex: tab features).
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[Animate Dreams]

I started using Maxthon, because I've actually seen it use less resources than IE6. And that's amazing. Plus, Maxthon has a whole plethora of features that I actually will use(I never used ANYTHING on FF, though I used quite a few on Opera), the only one that's missing is an X button on the individual tabs. I think I found a way to add that, I was just too lazy to do it.

[Cyan~Fire]

Bah, Maxthon is just another one of those IE-based things. You're just using IE with some extra features loaded, I doubt it actually uses less resources.
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[Animate Dreams]

Oh, I would doubt any browser's claim to use less resources than IE. But when I have 5 IE windows open, and 5 tabs in Maxthon open, sometimes Maxthon will be using less. Sometimes IE will. It really doesn't make much sense, and it's quite likely incorrect. But I've gotta say, that's my favorite thing about Maxthon, is that is pretty much is IE. It uses a lot of the same config files and reads and stores favorites in the same places, etc. Still, though, I use it for different things than I use IE for. Maybe if Maxthon and Opera were to come together and create a lightweight browser with lots of features, based off of IE, and a streamlined design, I would permanently switch. But, I really don't see it coming.

[The Apache]

[Animate Dreams]

I have to admit, I don't understand why you'd want a spellchecker in a browser at all. What's it for, spellchecking your posts in forums? I mean, I doubt many people would like to quickly be able to point out all the spelling errors in a webpage. But aside from not needing a spell checker, I've always assumed people that spelled badly did so because they were apathetic about it. Now, though, FF fanboys are popping up everywhere acting like everyone's been pining for a spellchecker for years. Seriously...wtf?

[CypherJF]

forums, blogs, e-mail, chat rooms, hm everywhere.

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Ever submit reports via a web browser? Most corporate users have to. Ticket requests for your server? Support questions to companies? Making an eBay auction?

You should have seen some of the emails I got back when I still allowed email support for Server Help. Half the battle was trying to figure out what they are even talking about, let alone try and get more out of them than "it doesn't work." Computers can do spell checking very easily, why not add it? Just an unobtrusive red dotted underline for words that are not in the dictionary. I used to have spell checking in these forums until a bunch of security updates changed things around too much that the old mod didn't work and I was too lazy to edit it to work again.

[Animate Dreams]

Ah, I suppose. But for most people on these forums, since so many people here aspire to be great programmers with great jobs or things of that sort, I'd think you'd want to fix the problem, not cover it up. I mean, few companies will hand out spelling tests as part of the application, but from my own experiences working at Verizon Wireless($$), bad spelling is only tolerated to a certain extent. For example, if you were working on something official that had to be presented, and your work consistently had to be checked, you'd be reprimanded, or the project may be taken from you. More often, though, it would just piss people off... I mean, sometimes e-mails that were sent out were hardly readable, and people just don't have time for that.

Who knows, though, maybe a spell checker will actually help people learn, if they have the mind for it.

[z.alpha+]

my spelling is horrible.

god bless the almighty computer.

[Cerium]

Meh...

It seems to me that spell checkers are for people who are unwilling to learn. They don't make a note to remember/learn how to spell something, because the spell checker will take care of it for them.

I guess for most people it tends not to matter, but if your job requires you to write to others on a regular basis, you probably should be able to write most of your document without the need of a spelling or grammar assistant.

Also, FYI: I don't use spell checkers and my spelling and grammer skillz are some of the best I've seen on all of the internets I visit.
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[Animate Dreams]

I don't use a spellchecker either, and I also don't know many people with better grammar than I(normally I'd say "me" just because it's more natural, but considering the subject of the sentence, I figured I'd do it right). That aside, I think some people just don't happen to know how to spell things right, and this may help them. I'm pretty sure the only reason I know how to spell so well is because I read a ton of books, and have seen it done the right way over and over. I'm thinking back to some of Dr Brain's old posts on MGB forums, and seeing if I can figure out what happened to make him learn to spell, but I don't quite understand. Jeez, it's hard to believe, too, that was really Brain?

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