Spellcheck question

[Charles]

Why does this site have a spell checker when used with Firefox and does not with good old Explorer?

[J Miller]

Mozilla Firefox has a built in spell checker that works every where. IE does not. There is a program you can download to IE that will do the same thing. Unfortunately I can't find it and for some stupid reason my computer has decided that when I click on my Internet Explorer icon it opens the Google home page.

I need my head bang icon.

Joe

[Charles]

Well that is just plum neat. I spend the weekend in Dallas with my daughter and viewed this site with her computer which uses Firefox and noticed the spell check. I have just downloaded Firefox and it is much faster than Explorer. I like it!

[Dastook]

http://www.iespell.com/

Here is a free spell checker for Explorer.

[AmBraCol]

http://www.iespell.com/

Here is a free spell checker for Explorer.

http://www.mozilla.com

A faster, safer, better browser than IE ever thought of being. Firefox is a great way to surf. Or you can drift over to

http://www.mozilla.org

and download SeaMonkey, an internet suite with e-mail and HTML WYSIWYG editing capabilities all built in.

And they both have built in spell check.

[awp101]

Mozilla Firefox has a built in spell checker that works every where. IE does not. There is a program you can download to IE that will do the same thing. Unfortunately I can't find it and for some stupid reason my computer has decided that when I click on my Internet Explorer icon it opens the Google home page.

I need my head bang icon.

Joe

It sounds like your homepage got set to google. You can change it in Internet Options.

Not banging his head but here ya go:


And just for funsies:

[jlchucker]

I've been using Mozilla Firefox for a couple of years now. It's a lot better than Internet Explorer--faster, neater. It has a lot of free add-ons that don't slow up your computer and are handy--like the weather add-on, ad blockers, etc. I was having some trouble with Outlook Express, which was my email. My computer guy suggested Thunderbird, which is Mozilla's version of email...another free download. I was really reluctant to change, thinking putting in all my addresses would be a pain. Wrong--after about a year of putting up with Outlook's quirks, I gave it a try. Looks a lot like what I had before, sucked all of my addresses in to its address book when I downloaded, and it has one of those junk-mail intercept features that has been sifting out all of those "Canadian Pharmacy" mailings, and other stuff of that nature--permanently! That stuff used to find its way into my email--but apparently when something gets labelled Junk in Thunderbird it goes into their big data base and gets scragged before you even see it. I still have Internet Explorer and Outlook on my computer, but never use them. The Mozilla stuff works so much better.

[rjohns94]

thanks for the links, I have updated to firefox.

[JReed]

http://www.iespell.com/

Here is a free spell checker for Explorer.

Thanks for the link now I can stop bugging my wife when I cant remember how to spell something.

[piller]

I don't like the spellcheck options as they never give me the correct spelling of what I want. I guess that comes with sometimes sending e-mail about work related items which are Latin and not English. Maybe the medical professions need to get into this century and not the fourteenth century.