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Firefox 2 hints and tips
Darwin:
Yeah, reading and writing American English does tend to colour one's thinking. I hadn't realised that there were so many different perspectives on how words should be spelled. If I can ever get organised enough, perhaps I'll try to find an on-line dictionary that outlines the differences between American (and Canadian and Australian and New Zealand and South African) spellings and utilisation and British spellings and utilisation...
:P
Jammo the OrganizedFellow:
Hint for those who are in England or Canada or anyone who spells "colour" with a U: to download another dictionary go to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/dictionaries/?lang=en-US
It took me a long time to figure this out.
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source: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/firefox-2/geek-to-live--top-firefox-2-config-tweaks-209941.php#c556200
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Carol Haynes:
Ever closed a TAB only to realise you wish you hadn't? Try Ctrl + Shift + T and you can step back through closed tabs and they will be reopened in new tabs. Really useful.-Carol Haynes (October 25, 2006, 06:01 AM)
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realise = real eyes realize real lies.
WOW!
i heard all about the spell-checker that's built in, and when i quoted you, it did that little underline thing to show it's misspelled. thats awesome!-jammo (October 25, 2006, 12:17 PM)
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Please excuse my ignorance - unfortunately I speak and spell real English :P
Carol Haynes:
About half of my extensions died when I installed 2.0, so my tip is - wait a little while before you upgrade (I had to revert to 1.5.0.7).
-mrainey (October 25, 2006, 04:29 PM)
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Override version checking and you can reenable them - I didn't find any that wouldn't work (except for RoboForm and they have now released a version 2 extension).
Carol Haynes:
Yeah, reading and writing American English does tend to colour one's thinking. I hadn't realised that there were so many different perspectives on how words should be spelled. If I can ever get organised enough, perhaps I'll try to find an on-line dictionary that outlines the differences between American (and Canadian and Australian and New Zealand and South African) spellings and utilisation and British spellings and utilisation...
-Darwin (October 25, 2006, 05:28 PM)
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Canadians generally follow British English spellings (though they tolerate US spellings). Not sure about NZ or Oz.
Who was it that said "American and England are two countries divided by a common language" (or something like that) ?
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