Spell Check and Post to del.icio.us for Firefox

March 13, 2005 8:28 AM

I'm trying to make the switch from IE to Firefox but I'm needing a couple of extensions before I can dump IE. I use IE Spell to spell check web forms and right-click post to del.icio.us to bookmark pages in del.icio.us. Does anyone know of any similar extensions for Firefox? Thanks in advance!
posted by nalihasan to technology (4 comments total)

I believe that Foxylicious and Spellbound will do what you want.
posted by cerebus19 at 8:39 AM on March 13, 2005

nutr.itio.us is said to have right click saving but the on-link from this page gives: 'suspended for the moment'.
posted by peacay at 8:47 AM on March 13, 2005

I prefer delicious to Foxylicious, but YMMV. Delicious has right click saving (and a myriad of other options).
posted by sachinag at 9:18 AM on March 13, 2005

It's not an extension, but a hot-key spellchecker, but MicroSpell is definitely worth a look for its incredibly efficient interface: rather than moving sequentially through the document, it lists all suspects alphabetically, separated into categories. So if you've misspelled "foo" ten times, you only have to correct once.

Even though it periodically ignores the hotkey and needs to be restarted with "ms32 -b" from the command prompt, it's one of the very few non-GPL applications I strongly recommend. Give it a try using the advanced interface, and you'll find you spell-check in about half the time it takes using other spellcheckers.

It's also smart enough to ignore HTML markup and to distinguish identifiers used in code, compound words, and word variations.
posted by orthogonality at 10:00 AM on March 13, 2005