Windows 10: Microsoft is adding new spellchecker to Chrome for Windows 10

Microsoft is actively participating in the development of the Chromium project, which powers Edge, Chrome, Vivaldi, and other web browsers. The contributions Microsoft makes benefit all Chromium browsers including its own Edge and Google’s Chrome.

Last year, Microsoft made commits to the Chromium base to replace the default spellchecker ‘Hunspell’ with Windows Spellchecker on Windows 10. With Microsoft Edge 83, Windows Spellchecker is available with several enhancements and improvements.

Google has also liked the idea and the feature has already headed to Chrome, but it’s currently hidden behind a flag.

This collaboration between Google and Microsoft engineers is an example of how open-source collaboration can work. The new Spellchecker will significantly improve the experience with support for the following features:

• URLs, acronyms and email addresses.
• Additional languages and dialect.
• Shared custom dictionary.

By default, Chrome’s Hunspell spell checks email addresses, URLs, etc in all text fields, including WordPress, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and most third-party websites.



With Windows Spellchecker, you’ll see fewer squiggly red lines underneath email address, acronyms, URLs, additional languages, or dialect.

Like most other Google Chrome features, Windows Spellchecker may have started rolling out for some users. If you wish to venture into Microsoft’s new spellchecker for Chrome, you can manually enable the feature by following these steps:

• Open Chrome://flags.
• Search for “Use the Windows OS spell checker” and enable it.
• Relaunch the browser.

The Windows Spellchecker update is among more than 1,900 such changes Microsoft has contributed to the Chromium platform. Last year, Microsoft worked with Google engineers to improve accessibility, tab management, performance, and other basic areas of Chromium platform.

Microsoft is also working on elastic scrolling support for Chrome.

While Chromium is controlled and maintained by Google, it’s still open-source and anyone can use and modify it. In 2018, Microsoft abandoned its own web rendering engine called EdgeHTML and embraced Chromium to get rid of persistent compatibility problems it faced with the legacy Edge.

On May 28, 2020, Microsoft said that legacy Edge has been discontinued in Windows 10 version 2004 and Chromium version will be rolled out to the consumers in the coming months.

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"One of the first browser add-ons many people install to improve their online experience is Adblock Plus or something similar. Until recently, Microsoft Edge's lack of support for add-ons put off a lot of would-be users, but reports from Build 2016 suggest that native ad blocking is on its way to the Internet Explorer successor.

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