Is impossible to spell check in piano forum ?

[dora96]

English is my second laugages. I speak English and write English, but I am bad at typing. Sometimes, I make quite a lot of mistakes in my spelling when I try to post subject because I am always in a hurry and distracted by noisy kids. Thank you piano street, great forum I love it. It is really God sent!!

[quantum]

Have you tried Firefox?  It has built in spell check for online forms, plus an enormous list of very practical and usable features.  Best is it's free. 

https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

[dora96]

Hi,

Thank you for letting me know about  firefox. I have downloaded it, could you tell me how to use the spell check? Is there a menu bar to use the spell check thanks

[quantum]

No menu needed, just go into any form (like the Piano street reply box) and start typing.  Make a spelling mistake and it is underlined in red.  Right click on the red underlined word for a list of word corrections. 

Firefox also has some pretty cool pop up blocking features and will show you an unobtrusive yellow bar to tell you something has been blocked.  You can choose to see it if you like.

You also must try the Find function (probably one of my favorite features). Includes highlighting, plus no find window box which blocks you from seeing the webpage. 

[anodibu]

In order for spell check to work in firefox you have to install dictionaries for the languages you wish to spell check.
You can install them from the following link:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3

[dora96]

THANK YOU, YOU ARE A GENIES.   

In future, I don't need to waste time to try to find the spelling. Another thing you mention blocking features. What do you mean? Could you give me an example about the cool features firefox. MY friend has firefox with her notebook. Now I understand why she choose it thank you

[thalbergmad]

THANK YOU, YOU ARE A GENIES.   

That would not have happened if you had used Firefox.

Thal

[Bob]

I use the Google toolbar spellcheck.  But it's still like work.  You have to hit the button and go through.  Redlines things like mentioned above. 

So I skip it sometimes.  Like now.     Would be nice to have it automatic, but I don't know how and I'm using IE.

[quantum]

Go to this e-card site for an example of how Firefox blocks pop ups.
https://www.123greetings.com/

See that yellow bar on top that just appeared.  Click options if you want to see the pop up or set that domain to always show pop ups.


Look at the top left corner.  You will see a search bar to the right of URL bar.  You can search Google from here, but it is not limited to that.  You can add sites and engines that offer this search feature like Amazon, Ebay, Wikipedia, Webster, etc...  Click Manage to add more search engines.  (Nils can we add Piano street to this  )

Customize Firefox functionality with extensions.  There are many to choose:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1


Tabs are uber.  CTRL+T to create new tab.  CTRL+TAB to flip through them.  CTRL+x (where x = 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.) to select a tab.  Viewing multiple pages is easy. 


CTRL+H for browsing history.  Your history is searchable within Firefox.

CTRL+U brings up a syntax colored source code for the webpage you are viewing. 

Right click on webpage > "View page info" tells you all about your current page including a list of all links, forms, media and security.