Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by magicaxeman on Jan. 18, 2010 ·

Sadly this is giving me american english spellings often trying to substitute Z's in place of S's for instance the British spelling of recognise is with the S, yet it tries to correct it to the USA spelling recognize

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19). 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by RogueRebel on Jan. 18, 2010 ·

I love this dictionary, my spelling is really awful and i was sick of typing everything up in office, great add on!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19). 

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

by silichip on Jan. 11, 2010 ·

Hi, Sadly the (UK) English dictionary v1.19 doesn't work for TB3 and to remove the add-on use Windows system restore but the (US) English dictionary v4.0 works fine for me and suggest you use that add-on until an updated version is available for TB3.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19). 

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by Gloucester Dave on Jan. 10, 2010 ·

I cannot install any dictionaries into my version 3.5.7 running under Windows 7.

Why? I miss this facility greatly. :-(

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19). 

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by charityalbumman on Jan. 6, 2010 ·

Installed fine into the Thunderbird Release candidate 3.0 for me without issues.

However, when checking spelling it is going through the entire HTML code behind the message rather than just checking the message content itself. Needs updating!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19). 

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by pleriche on Jan. 3, 2010 ·

Disappointing. Even with the hack described by other reviewers it won't install on TB3.0 for me, nor will it uninstall, so I'm stuck.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19). 

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

by lensmanseye on Dec. 26, 2009 ·

This would be a very useful add-on for Mozilla and yet it has proven to be one of the most unreliable add-ons I've installed. Mostly, it seems to fluctuate between being compatible with my version of Thunderbird and begin incompatible. While sometimes this is due to an actual update of Thunderbird occuring (and a new version of the add-on being very slow to come out), on many other occasions I can't even claim that. A pity really.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19). 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Olivier L on Dec. 24, 2009 ·

Very good indeed. I strongly recommend also whether you post the comment of Johny on all sites (not only from ES-Spain) or even better you have the file install.rdf directly modified. Thanks to both.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19). 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Russ_T on Dec. 23, 2009 ·

I have hacked this file as per the guide, you can download it from me at

http://russtaylor.co.uk/2009/12/british-english-dictionary-for-thunderbird-3/

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19). 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Drachsi on Dec. 20, 2009 ·

The solution to mod the install.rdf file seemed to work for me. Could somebody mod the master so that we don't have to all do this?

Drachsi

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19). 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Johny on Dec. 19, 2009 ·

UPGRADE SOLUTION

Step-by-step procedure:

Download the xpi file and extract it (with winzip/7zip/powerarchiver/winrar etc).

Go in the extracted folder and edit (with plain-text editor - such as notepad) the file install.rdf

For Firefox compatibility, go to line 12 (em:maxVersion) and change the value to
3.0.*

For Thunderbird compatibility, go to line 19 (em:maxVersion) and change the value to
3.0.*

I suggest you change both.

Save the file and compress the folder in a zip file (i.e. british_english_dictionary.zip). Rename the zip file to an xpi file (i.e. british_english_dictionary.xpi).

Install the new XPI addon into Firefox and/or Thunderbird!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19). 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Johny on Dec. 19, 2009 ·

UPGRADE SOLUTION

Step-by-step procedure:

Download the xpi file and extract it (with winzip/7zip/powerarchiver/winrar etc).

Go in the extracted folder and edit (with plain-text editor - such as notepad) the file install.rdf

For Firefox compatibility, go to line 12 (em:maxVersion) and change the value to
3.0.*

For Thunderbird compatibility, go to line 19 (em:maxVersion) and change the value to
3.0.*

I suggest you change both.

Save the file and compress the folder in a zip file (i.e. british_english_dictionary.zip). Rename the zip file to an xpi file (i.e. british_english_dictionary.xpi).

Install the new XPI addon into Firefox and/or Thunderbird!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19). 

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Cedders on Dec. 15, 2009 ·

This was a good spell-checker. For some reason, it isn't compatible with Thunderbird 2.0.0.23, which is the version in Ubuntu (Linux) Karmic, but so long as you have myspell-en-gb installed that doesn't seem to be a problem.

The myspell vocabulary doesn't seem to be that large - words like "interpellate", "rowlocks" and "ericaceous" are marked.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19). 

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

by Pymh on Dec. 10, 2009 ·

I was so happy to have everyday use of this dictionary ! What a shame it has not beeen updated, while Thunderbird has ! What a nuisance. Let us kown when you will edit a tool as good as that one ;the sooner the better !

Pymh
Belgium

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19). 

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by T d on Dec. 9, 2009 ·

There _is_ a problem with this dictionary and Thuderbird 2.0, on Linux at least.

1) Installing it does not enable the "Restart Thunderbird" button, which means I have to do close the dialog, then close TBird.
2) After restart, the dictionary shows a red exclamation mark in the add-ons list, saying the Dictionary is not compatible with this version of TBird.

Given that my other dictionaries and my other add-ons work perfectly, this means there is a problem with this one.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19). 

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by Matt Tapping on Dec. 8, 2009 ·

Get: "Missing argument: file_id" error

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19). 

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by Matt Tapping on Dec. 8, 2009 ·

Get: "Missing argument: file_id" error

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19). 

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by MOrrom on Dec. 7, 2009 ·

Does not work with anything higher than 3.5.
It's a great dictionary, a great shame that it has not been updated.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19). 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Linda Thomas on Dec. 3, 2009 ·

Yes it does work with 3.5, that's what I'm using.. are you sure you are using it correctly? Right click the input box and make sure that there's a tick in the check spelling! I've been using this spell checker for a long time and I can tell you it's the best one!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19). 

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by Milo25 on Dec. 3, 2009 ·

Not working with v. 3.5

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.19).