Chrome spell check

Burnsy2023 · 25 Mar 2011 at 14:17

Chrome's inbuilt spell checker isn't the best. Does anyone know of a decent alternative?

Chiribo · 25 Mar 2011 at 14:28

Try changing the spell checker language to English (United Kingdom)...? Can't say I've seen any problems with it on my Chrome installs.

Burnsy2023 · 25 Mar 2011 at 14:35

Already is. It works, but doesn't recognise misspellings that Word or a Google search would. I also don't have the flexibility to change it. One if the most common annoyances is when I make the type dont' and it autocorrects to don't'.

Dirk · 25 Mar 2011 at 14:43

Chrome spell check flags 'Google' for me

LiE · 25 Mar 2011 at 15:20

Burnsy2023 said:
Already is. It works, but doesn't recognise misspellings that Word or a Google search would. I also don't have the flexibility to change it. One if the most common annoyances is when I make the type dont' and it autocorrects to don't'.

Chrome auto-corrects? or did I miss read.

There are words that it doesn't know but nothing a right-click add to dictionary doesn't solve.

hyperst · 25 Mar 2011 at 15:23

lol, you spelt chrome wrong in the title lol

d_brennen · 25 Mar 2011 at 15:26

hyperst said:
lol, you spelt chrome wrong in the title lol

The spell check must be really rubbish

Burnsy2023 · 25 Mar 2011 at 15:29

hyperst said:
lol, you spelt chrome wrong in the title lol

Gah, no edit button any more...

hyperst · 25 Mar 2011 at 15:46

what about iespell, is that compatible

FlyingPig · 9 Sep 2011 at 12:11

Reviving this thread here. I am multi-lingual and write in both Dutch and English, but one thing that really bothers me about Chrome's spell-check is that it isn't able to automatically switch languages. On my Macbook Pro it somehow manages to, but I guess that is because OS X has a built-in checker. Why is this not possible on Windows?

FlyingPig · 15 Dec 2011 at 14:05

Anyone? It is driving me nuts at the moment. Even when I change languages (so from, say, Dutch back to English), Chrome is still stuck in the previous language until you select a word. All words are still underlines in red, in other words, and only new text is recognised in the selected language. Extremely frustrating.