413950 - Spell Checker poorly suggests corrections and can't identify words with different endings

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Description

[Mike Lierman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2

The Spell Checker in Firefox 2 is an awesome adition but lacks basic functionality. Now I agree it can't be as good as Word right now but I seriously have to copy words into a search and google it and google will say "Did you mean".
What we could try to do is TRY to work with Google to ubtain an auto-updated dictionary set that updates weekly.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Kind of complicated to explain steps to product. You know what I mean. But Use Firefox 2.0.11 or above for a long time and type a lot in emails and in Blogging areas.
2. Notice Firefox's behavior to your misspells a lot of them have poor auto correct suggestions on fixing the word.
Actual Results:  
Firefox doesn't list the proper words to I expect to find or doesn't rank them by relvantcy so the word I am looking for might be in the middle or at the bottom not always at the top like I expect. And the suggestions are not always accurate.

Expected Results:  
I expected Firefox to be a little better and a bit more accurate if I misspell a word I have to figure out a different misspelling so that Firefox will catch the correct suggestions. This may be as simple as swapping a letter to the next letter over.

Here is something type swaping notice Firefox says it's misspelled. Right click and you will know what I am talking about. The word suggested as first is swamp. {Swap != swamp}


I am willing to help the best way I can. This might be more of a block to Firefox 3.0 because this is important to get this fixed, but I also know that there are many things to do to the spell checker and to Firefox 3.0 such as the new UI. So this might not be a top priority so I will not fuss over it on 3.0 but feel free to block 3.0.

Comment 1

[deleteaccount]

You don't seem to mention what you mean by "can't not distinguish punctuated words."  Perhaps it is this:

I am always mistyping ; for ' so I have don;t and such.  That often (always?) seems to cause the spell checker to find just the don part, so it is necessary to correct the trailing ;t by hand.

Comment 2

[Mike Lierman]

not exactly I mean when I spell things with a trailing 's' or sometimes the ' it will mark the entire word is wrong because it has that punctuation or 's'.

Comment 3

[Németh László]

Firefox 3 has an improved spell checker with better suggestions. Please, check the beta 3 releases.

Comment 5

[Mike Lierman]

Yes I have noticed this, the Firefox 3 string is great in spelling and in
overall performance. I can't blieave how much better it suggests spelling, I am
find that I no longer have to check in Google as much any more. 
I will mark it as fixed. And since I am the owner of the bug, I can state that
it is VERIFIED and can be marked as such.

I have notice that bug# 417628 is a duplicate of this bug.


-Mike

Please mark as VERIFIED.

Comment 6

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

FIXED is correct since it was clearly fixed by the landing of Hunspell.