Spellchecking for Firefox
29 Sep 2004 
in the early evening 
Matt Winckler
Another feature I’ve heard requested for this Red Book is a spellcheck feature when making your posts. Well, alas, I’m not feeling inclined whatsoever to write any such feature. I think the spellchecker that LiveJournal uses would probably be easily duplicated. But unfortunately it is also lame. Who wants to spend five minutes poking through and manually replacing words in their posts? As such, it’s not an option, and furthermore I can’t be bothered to spend time thinking of a better way to do it.
However, I do have a spiffy solution for all of you spelling- and typing-impaired! SpellBound is a Firefox extension that utilizes Mozilla’s sleek spellchecker interface (same one as in Thunderbird) to let you check text boxes and textareas in your browser. Although I don’t typically use spellcheckers, I must say that this one is a pretty neat idea, and is definitely an extension worth installing.