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    One for Hitcher and Firefox 2.0

    Hitcher will love this. Firefox 2.0 comes with built in spell checker so people making spelling mistakes on Kiwibiker will shortly become a thing of the past
    90% of the time spent writing this post was spent thinking of something witty to say. It may have been wasted.

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    Unless you choose not to use the devils browser.
    To every man upon this earth
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sniper View Post
    Unless you choose not to use the devils browser.
    I must have something wrong withithi meeee asssss the spoolcocker dont works

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    yeah i wouldnt use the beta either as its buggy as hell

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    Ahhh, as another thought, is it customizable langauge so Hitcher doesnt go insane by the thing using american spelling
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    Quote Originally Posted by k14 View Post
    yeah i wouldnt use the beta either as its buggy as hell
    Only real bug I have found is clicking a link in a page occasionaly returns it to the top of the page and you have to go back down and click it again.

    Work slow today?

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    Hm. It doesn't seem to work. I downloaded the beta and tried it, by entering some deliberately mis-spelled words, and it didn't pick them up at all.

    Other quite correctly spelled words it complained about.
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    anyone know how to access the spell check functionality in beta 2?

    ie turn it on?

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    Make sure you install the UK version or they'll be H.E.L.L. (Hitcher's Evil Leather Lash) to pay.
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    I downloaded the zipped version of Portable Firefox 2.0rc2. The spell checker worked right out of the box. Most incorrectly spelt words were picked up and get a red wiggle line underneath them.
    90% of the time spent writing this post was spent thinking of something witty to say. It may have been wasted.

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    So why then, does it NOT red line garage (mis-spelling of gargre), park (should be prak), cruiser (should be crusier). It does red line sportsbike, but also (incorrectly ) redlines the correct spelling. We need a KB version. Well, it is open source, after all .
    Quote Originally Posted by skidmark
    This world has lost it's drive, everybody just wants to fit in the be the norm as it were.
    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Vincent
    The manufacturers go to a lot of trouble to find out what the average rider prefers, because the maker who guesses closest to the average preference gets the largest sales. But the average rider is mainly interested in silly (as opposed to useful) “goodies” to try to kid the public that he is riding a racer

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    Quote Originally Posted by sAsLEX View Post
    anyone know how to access the spell check functionality in beta 2?

    ie turn it on?
    Looks like it might be on automatically for all form pages, i.e. for textarea boxes where you type a new post in.

    You can find the British English Dictionary here.
    90% of the time spent writing this post was spent thinking of something witty to say. It may have been wasted.

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    cant find the arsing spel checker turn on button ffs

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    Snorts contemptuously. Microsoft Wrod has got a built-in spell checker. It puts wiggly red lines under things it is unsure of. Do people take one blind bit of notice? No. And the poor maligned apostrophe, what about its rights in this TXT world gone mad? And what about people who use the wrong word, even though it may be spelt write?

    And as for "American English"... Any country that pixelates out glimpses of butt crack and has coined the word "ass" because an arse is too vulgar and impolite for god-fearing folk to utter, doesn't deserve to be taken seriously. It's pronounced al-u-min-i-um, you dorks!

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    Tally ho old chaps this spell checker thing now works!

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