Jim R Feliciano wrote:

Al Patrick wrote:

I recently changed from Netscape to Mozilla and suspect the dictionary
is greatly lacking in Mozilla. Anyone else observed / suspected this?

Boy, You should see my posts prior to spell checking! :-)

I just (prev msg) typed in occurances (should have been occurrences)
and Mozilla wouldn't even offer a suggestion as to the correct
spelling. I had to grab old Webster's off the shelf. I've observed
this several times with Mozilla. It's bad when your spell checker
can't even offer a clue as to what you might have meant. I'm insulted
and embarrassed. Didn't know my spelling was THAT bad! :-(

Al

I suggest you use Firefox and Thunderbird. Both of these Mozilla
products do the job. Firefox is a reliable browser. Thunderbird is a
great e-mail newsreader program. The big Mozilla does everything
package thing is not as good as just getting Firefox and Thunderbird.
Thunderbird filters out spam and it has a built in spell check. Before
I send this note Thunderbird will check the mail for spelling errors and
ask what I want to do about errors. Thunderbird is very good at keeping
newsgroups updated. You can tell Thunderbird to keep or get rid of
newsgroup articles which have been read. I imported my address book
from Eudora. I imported my bookmarks from Opera. Both programs do a
good job. Go Open Source.


I downloaded and installed both of them prior to downloading and
installing Mozilla and they worked very well - EXCEPT I couldn't /
didn't get them to function together on one item. When I clicked a link
in Thunderbird it didn't automatically call up Firefox. I realize they
are slightly newer versions than what I'm using. I asked and was told
that I needed to make Firefox my default browser. I did that and made
Thunderbird the default email program. Still didn't work! Don't know
what the problem is. I just got Mozilla and that has done
satisfactorily but, I feel, the spell checker / dictionary is lacking
just a bit.

Oh, it checks the spelling and allows me to do what is needed /
preferred. It just doesn't recognize some of the words that are spelled
correctly. Netscape had the problem of not recognizing certain
variations on words. I suppose all spell checkers will. However,
Mozilla doesn't seem to be as thorough as Netscape. Not sure how it
compares with the Thunderbird spell checker.

Al