Reviews for British English Dictionary (Marco Pinto)
British English Dictionary (Marco Pinto) by Marco A.G.Pinto
109 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15276850, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by pierrev, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13665488, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15166984, 5 years agoFabulous, now I can pretty much ditch my Chromium based browser. Firefox has Picture-in-picture (off by default!) and a Spell-checker... Who would have known 😱
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15202661, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by John Digby, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by konstant213, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14660450, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14665772, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by skpManiac, 5 years agoThis is an essential part of using Firefox, why the hell do Mozilla not just include it in the UK version, it comes with NO ability to spell check, but the US one has the US spell checker which for us in England is rubbish - get a grip Mozilla, and add spell checkers for all nations not just bloody America!
Thanks Marco for doing their work for them ;)Developer response
posted 5 years agoHello!
I have been working hard on the speller during my holiday.
I am trying to add as much possessives and plurals as possible and clean the .dic file by replacing words with flags (derivations), which is the reason why the add-on's filesize is the same or decreased in the last release.
You can always check the list of changes here: https://github.com/marcoagpinto/aoo-mozilla-en-dict
I have also taken the suggestion of a person who e-mailed me and am now trying to check Wikipedia articles more closely, mainly the ones from important fields so that if someone is writing an essay on a subject, they will have most of the words from that subject.
Thank you for the five stars review, my dear brother.
Kind regards, - Rated 5 out of 5by Ogrebear, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15071729, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15059308, 5 years agoWorks perfectly.
I had to remove my installed version of Firefox as I had installed the US English version (who knew!) and the US English version seems to default to US English and will not allow you to select UK English as it's default.
Following reinstallation I installed the first English Dictionary in the Add-on list and it simply does not work.
Having uninstalled that one and installed this one, I am pleased to report a now functional UK dictionary. Bravo!Developer response
posted 5 years agoThank you, my dear brother.
In the next dictionary update around the end of the month, it will include tons of plurals and possessives.
I have been dedicating some time to this task. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15039473, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15036818, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14967359, 5 years agoI find this ENGLISH english (not US) spellchecker brilliant. The only things it misses are homophones where I use the wrong spelling but that spelling is valid for another context e.g. great and grate . . . but no system can be expected to cover that!! I also like the way it works even when I'm filling in forms etc.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThank you my dear brother,
If you have a list of missing words, please send them to me and I will try to add them in the next release.
Kind regards, - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14628862, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 6994310, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by RedDwarf, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13982476, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14660926, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14636785, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14610271, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14584450, 5 years agoPretty awful dictionary.
Doesn't understand plurals of common words and doesn't even know words like customer. It gives a suggestion of custom er . Ermm WTF!
EDIT: I am on Firefox Quantum 61.0.1 (64-bit)
Will increase score if browser update / add on update fixes the issue.Developer response
posted 5 years agoYes, probably you aren't using it with the latest Firefox.
Remember that Mozilla converted all spellers to WebExtensions and now it requires Firefox 62 or 63 and above.
Only Firefox+Thunderbird 60.5 to be released on 29-JAN will support WebExtensions (60ESR).
Only Thunderbird still has a legacy extension, but after 60.5 is released I will upload only WebExtensions.