When a user comments that keyboard use in Firefox is not as efficient as they’d like in terms of the number of key presses, it’s not a good idea to suggest something that is even less efficient because it requires moving a hand.
I've been having this issue for a while now, across multiple computers, where Firefox flags random words as incorrect. I usually notice it happen when it's a newer word, like Scalability for example, but I brush it off since it's not too common. I've been increasingly noticing that it happens to words that are variants of the root word, and I just saw it happen again with Amongst
I know it's set to the correct dictionary of Canadian English, since colour isn't underlined but color is, yet I'm at a loss trying to figure out what sort of Canadian English dictionary could possibly not include words like amongst.
I'm sure there's a ton more than I see these days too, since I've been clicking "Add to Dictionary" for years now after Googling to confirm I'm being gaslit by autocorrect. Who knows how many words are self-additions and not natively recognized (and would you look at that, "natively" is not a word either apparently!)
It's some setting I must have screwed with that's causing it, right? How do I fix this?
I’d suggest turning that dictionary off and relying on a third-party spelling/grammar app with better Canadian language support. I don’t know if they have a Canada-specific option, but I like LanguageTool: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/languagetool/
There are a lot of options out there, be careful about which ones have a decent privacy policy. Keep in mind, they could easily record anything you type, on any website.
Normally Firefox itself should ask first if google is allowed to access your location. Maybe try find that setting in firefox and disable it. I would imagine if firefox itself blocks the request already, it isn’t even handed over to gnome. But that’s pure speculation.
I actually run Firefox for all my normal stuff and have a copy of Firefox Developer Edition I use for streaming music and videos so I can keep my "work" and "media" totally separate.
Sure, I have reported many issues in the past, I just like to discuss it first in case it is already known or there is another fix (remember the http3 bug). There used to be a sticky post at the firefox subreddit for nightly discussion, but I didn't find one here.
Mine is working fine too now, this is strange. Like something was wrong for like 40-50 mins after installing it both on my PC and Laptop. I tried disabling my only extension too but it still had issues. Seems everything is good now.
For some reason, the default keyboard command Alt+P, which is Option+P on macOS, did not work for me, but I remembered that there’s a way on about:addons to “manage extension shortcuts”, so I changed it to Shift+Control+P, and now it works.
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