Introducing an improved spellcheck experience in Microsoft Edge

Bot

AI-powered Bot
Thread author
Verified
Apr 21, 2016
3,319
Beginning with Microsoft Edge 83, we’ve introduced a new spellcheck experience for Windows users, powered by Windows Spellcheck. The feature is supported on Windows 8.1 and above.

Previously, on Windows, Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers used open-source proofing tools for spell checking. Moving to Windows Spellcheck has a number of benefits, including support for additional languages and dialects, a shared custom dictionary, and better support for URLs, acronyms, and email addresses.

Based on early feedback from preview users, this represents an overall improvement in the quality of spell checking in Microsoft Edge, as illustrated in the examples below.


Hunspell Spellcheck​

Windows Spellcheck​

Generic Patterns:
Screen capture showing generic patterns like URLs and initializations being incorrectly marked as misspelled


Generic Patterns:
Screen capture showing generic patterns like URLs and initializations being corrected evaluated by spellcheck


Markdown editor:
Screen capture showing Markdown content being incorrectly marked as misspelled


Markdown editor:
Screen capture showing Markdown content being evaluated correctly by Spellcheck

How to use spellcheck in Microsoft Edge


For most users, no action is required to set up spell checking – it will automatically inherit your preferred language settings from Windows. To configure the languages that will be spellchecked, navigate to the edge://settings/languages page.

Screen capture showing spellcheck settings in Microsoft Edge

Users can install additional languages to spellcheck in Windows Settings by navigating to Time & Language -> Language and selecting Add a preferred language.

Screen capture showing Language settings in Windows



If the user has not installed the necessary language pack (or if one is not available), Microsoft Edge will fall back to the prior experience powered by Hunspell.

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.

The new spellcheck experience is now available in Microsoft Edge starting with version 83, recently released to the Stable channel. Try it out and let us know what you think!

Bo Cupp, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft Edge
Grisha Lyukshin, Program Manager, Microsoft Edge

The post Introducing an improved spellcheck experience in Microsoft Edge appeared first on Microsoft Edge Blog.

Source: Introducing an improved spellcheck experience in Microsoft Edge - Microsoft Edge Blog
 

MacDefender

Level 16
Verified
Top Poster
Oct 13, 2019
779
It looks like Windows Spellcheck doesn't submit your keystrokes into the cloud, which is nice if you care about privacy.

The Google Chrome "Enhanced Spellcheck" is basically a keylogger of sorts -- it is sending keystrokes to the cloud in realtime to do spell checking, which is somewhat creepy if you don't 100% trust Google.
 

Gandalf_The_Grey

Level 76
Verified
Honorary Member
Top Poster
Content Creator
Well-known
Apr 24, 2016
6,506
Here’s how to activate Microsoft’s native Windows 10 Spell Checker in Google Chrome:
  1. Go to Chrome://flags in the address bar.
  2. Search for Windows OS Spell Checker.
  3. Toggle the selection to Enabled.
  4. Restart your browser.
 

About us

  • MalwareTips is a community-driven platform providing the latest information and resources on malware and cyber threats. Our team of experienced professionals and passionate volunteers work to keep the internet safe and secure. We provide accurate, up-to-date information and strive to build a strong and supportive community dedicated to cybersecurity.

User Menu

Follow us

Follow us on Facebook or Twitter to know first about the latest cybersecurity incidents and malware threats.

Top