thank you firefox 2.0
Firefox 2.0 came out recently. It’s got some nice new features, and seems pretty good so far. 
The thing that I’m most excited about is the integrated spell-checker. This blog is powered by WordPress, which is is great software but has lacked a built-in spell checker. (at least version 2.0.x). There are a number of available plug-in spell checkers for WP, and I’ve tried a few of them. I haven’t really been happy with any of them. They either don’t work at all, are clunky, or simply don’t catch the errors. Cutting and pasting into and out of Word to do the spell check stinks because you lose the links and the formatting of the online editor.
Firefox 2.0 has a spell checker built-in, and it seems to work quite well so far. So now when I write blog articles in FF (as I am right now), the browser handles the spell checking rather than the blog itself. The benefit here, aside from the obvious ones, is that the checker allows you to add words to it’s dictionary. So you get a universal dictionary you can take with you to any web page or blog you may be writing or commenting on. Handy, especially if your work is littered with industry-specific jargon that most spell checkers don’t know off the bat.
Firefox 2.0 is not without it’s issues. Some due to newness (many plugins have not been updated yet), and some bugs. Read up before you install, or run it side-by-side with your existing browser at first. I’ve been waiting for a year WP to add an elegant built-in spell checker to the WYSIWYG writer, but FF 2.0 solves the problem!
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