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A friend of mine, Derek Reynolds, was recently lamenting the non-existent spell checker for Wordpress. Due to a missing php library from his host, no spell check plugin would work. Well here’s the solution to his problem and possibly yours.

Google has released a toolbar for Firefox. Embedded in the toolbar is a spell checker that will check all the form fields on the current page. If it finds something it thinks is misspelled, it will highlight it in red. But that’s not all. You can click on the word and it will offer suggestions. Now how cool is that?

It’s not just for English either, it does German, Spanish, French, and more.

Other than that it’s just like the toolbar for I.E. excepts it’s missing the popup blocker. Since Firefox already has a excellent popup blocker, there was no need to add one. Also the spell check feature maybe in the Google toolbar for I.E. But I wouldn’t know, I use Firefox.

So I hope you are happy now Derek.

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