One of the new features of Firefox 2.0 is the built-in spell checker. And I made a test on how good the built-in dictionary is. And for the comparison, I also tested the same text in Safari which uses OS X's built-in spell checker.

This is the result of Firefox 2.0's built-in spell checker:


And for comparison, this is the spelling result from Safari 2.0.4:


(red underline indicates wrong spellings by either browser.)

As you can see, I carefully chose some word, most of them you can't find them in English dictionaries, but those words are commonly used. (Those words were spelled in their preferred way, e.g. QuickTime and SeaMonkey.)

The Firefox's result is shocking!
Firefox refuses to recognise any of the registered trademarks/product names of Apple. ("apple" and "safari" can be found in dictionary.)

Mac OS X does recognise a few names such as "Mozilla", "Netscape" (those are not in standard dictionary.)

It is also interesting to note that if the word "Google" is recognised by Firefox, why doesn't Firefox know the words "iPod" and "QuickTime"? The word iPod is used a lot nowadays, and "QuickTime" is an important web technology (back to early Netscape days). Further, if Firefox says "Google" is a correct word, what's wrong with "MSN"? "MSN" is another very popular service as well.

I do realise Firefox's lead developer - Ben Goodger - currently works for Google Inc.

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光看那兩張圖...我笑了~

如果 IE7 也有拼字檢查的話...
嗯~應該很容易想像的到...只剩最後一行 Microsoft MSN 兩個字沒紅標。 XD

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這觀點倒是挺有意思的，何不發表至 MozillaZine?
(雖然其實我是覺得沒辦法顧到那麼多，例如 MozillaZine 也會被認為是錯字，InDesign 也錯字、YouTube 也錯字、Gmail 也錯字)

話說 Sunbird 為什麼是錯字 @@

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Firefox 連自己家的東西都不認得，實在太爛了，可以丟掉了。

大小寫問題...

Firefox、firefox...

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那 fx, tb 呢? firefox 不也是一種動物?

　　我也覺得沒辦法顧那麼多，
　　更何況右鍵選單有「新增到字典」的功能，
　　使用者自然可以慢慢累積自己常用的字彙。

　　(Sunbird 並不是錯字啊 @@?)
　　

個人覺得那些縮寫都是所謂的『俗名』而不是正確名稱, 雖然官方好像有『Fx』(大寫F), 但總覺得官方好像沒有把它做為正式的縮寫用法...

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好吧，冰漾你認真了… =.="

No, "firefox" is not a standard English word.

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SO...???

所以 Firefox 才是正確的寫法，拼字檢查就是用來檢查這種錯誤的...

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我的意思是，拿拼字檢查的結果來延伸批評 fx，就跟拿未經證實的消息說 fx 洩露隱私一樣，沒什麼意義。

OOo 法文拼字檢查裏也找不到「台灣人」的正確拼法，那我是不是可以說 OOo 歧視台灣人???

拼字檢查不是用來查品版名, 軟件名的...
你這麼說~~
Prada
BitComet
HSBC
Casio
Froogle
也應該不是錯了吧~(全紅呢)

小弟覺得這不是fx的職責 如果一定要指責誰 那應該職責制作字典的人