British English Dictionary

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by absentprofessor on Aug. 24, 2011 · permalink

This dictionary is perfect. It does not misspell words. People that are getting errors haven't chosen "English-British" under 'Languages' in the right-click menu. Spell checking defaults to 'US-English'. Even after this is installed, British needs to be selected.


I've been through 15 pages of reviews now and checked the negative reviews and I I am disappointed by the 1 Star reviews dragging the average score down. Of all the words that were claimed either missing or wrong words, I couldn't verify a single claim.


Also, the 1 Star reviews that dismiss the product immediately because it didn't install or work for you - Look at the hundreds of other working reviews and realise, it's not the plugin, it must be your computer. And for those using beta FF software versions, please realise that not all your plugins re going to be instantly available for your in-development release. Incidentally, none of you seem to understand about incompatibility between extension and release version. Do you actually think that the plugin architecture changes so fundamentally between each release , that it breaks every extension. Of course not, think of Photoshop, Cubase or any other program that features plugins. To update a plugin, pretty much the only thing that needs altering is an internal number that lists the compatible versions. Yep, that's it! And it drives developers insane, constantly having to tweak a couple numbers to get the extension to work. This is why Firefox, in an upcoming release) is ditching Version Numbers altogether. This has annoyed a lot of people, but they aren't looking the big picture. Of course, there must be an (as yet unannounced) other way to determine if your release of Firefox/Thunderbird etc. But this will save so much developer time, users complaining about failing extensions and inaccurate revuew ratings.



Please bear all this in mind when casting your vote.