Posted on Friday, May 29 2020 @ 16:19 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Microsoft
announced its Windows Spellcheck is now available for Edge and other Chromium-based browsers. Starting with Edge version 83, the software giant replaced Hunspell with its own Windows Spellcheck. The benefit here is that the latter is more accurate and supports more languages and dialects. Furthermore, Windows Spellcheck offers support for URLs, acronyms, and e-mail addresses.
This feature was developed as a collaboration between Google and Microsoft engineers in the Chromium project, enabling all Chromium-based browsers to benefit from Windows Spellcheck integration. Our thanks go out to Guillaume Jenkins and Rouslan Solomakhin (Google), and Bruce Long, Luis Sanchez Padilla, and Siye Liu (Microsoft) for their collaboration on this feature.
Neowin
offers instructions on how you can enable it in Chrome:
Launch Google Chrome (version 83 or later) and type "chrome://flags" in the address bar.
Type "Use the Windows OS spell checker" in the search bar.
Click on the drop-down menu and select Enable.
Relaunch the web browser.
