Today, I visited my Competitive Ad Filter, and I noticed that many (most) of the URLs had red underlining. Does anyone know what this means? I did a search here, and on Google, but I found nothing.
No, I've never seen that before. Would you be able to provide a screenshot? I wasn't able to find anything about it either.
Here is a screen shot. Could it be Firefox trying to do a spelling check? I just updated Firefox. If so, then why isn't top10americansites underlined? That can't be a legitimate word, although "shopping", "smarter" and "target" are.
Hmmmm, I wonder if that's their spellchecker. I did see mention of that somewhere, but not on the Competitive Ads Filter specifically. Notice that most of the underlined ones are not whole words, for the most part?
Wouldn't this have to be a Google spelling checker? Why would they apply it to URLs, which can be anything? It's a mystery. I don't get it.
best4sites and fatlossforidiots are not underlined. That would be some weird spell checker that does not flag those 2. It separates some words automatically, but not others? Weird.
What if you try right-clicking on one of them. What happens? Also, try a different browser. Maybe it is browser related.
usasportstraining - as the kids say, u r gud. I tried Safari, and there are no underlines. Since I have a Mac, I tried Control click (right-click equivalent), and I was presented with a menu which had a pre-checked entry of "Spell Check This Field". I never specified that, so Firefox 2.0.0.12 defaulted to that option. I unclicked the option, and VOILA! The red lines were gone. usasportstraining - Where are you gonna be the next time I have an issue? Ha-ha. Thank you very much. Oh, and SupaSharp - Absolutely correct!
This is firefox built in spell checker. It will appear on all websites, as long as the word is within a form input field (text,textarea,etc..). I really don't see why you want to disable such helpful feature. Peace,
Because it is useless for a list of URLs, which aren't going to be in any dictionary. I do hate the M$ spell checkers. I am a pretty good speller, and I hate the idiot software always getting in the way, and telling me what is not spelled correctly, when in fact, it is EXACTLY the way I want it spelled, 99% of the time. Dang! Now Firefox is even doing it in this post! GO AWAY! So, it ALWAYS defaults to "Check". I don't like that, and I find it extremely annoying. How do I get it to default to "Don't Check". When using M$Word, to keep from going crazy, I have to go into Word preferences, and turn off a bazillion super-clever "features". Just "too much government". Get out of my way! Ha-ha. One man's "useful" is another man's trip wire. Programmers so clever that they become a perpetual annoyance. The "Bill Gates mentality" at work. It seldom occurs to them that less might be better. Especially, the CHOICE to have less, without jumping through hoops, and trying to find all the switches. FIREFOX DOESN'T REMEMBER! Visit the Competitive Filter again, there it is again! <edit>Found it! Firefox - Preferences - Advanced - General - Check Spelling As I Type - (uncheck) Ahh, satisfaction. Thank you, all. The old grouch is grateful. 1. Another reason I don't like spell checkers. The word "uncheck" above gets the red underline. But Dictionary.com says it is just fine. Bad Firefox implementation. How many other words does FF get wrong? 2. Another word about spell checkers. Lately, I have been finding MANY, MANY words misspelled in Google News - text, titles, everywhere. The problem is that the word is spelled correctly, but it is the WRONG word. For example, "Bush Goes To Far". The spell checker doesn't catch it. What is required is a "usage checker", to be used with the spell checker. But that requires AI. Without context, spell checkers are as dumb as dirt. That is another reason that I prefer not to rely on them.