Over the last few days I’ve tried a new Fire­fox exten­sion called After the Dead­line. This exten­sion is a gram­mar, style, and spell checker which does a bet­ter job than the built-in proof­read­ing mech­a­nism in Fire­fox. Actu­ally, I’ve always con­sid­ered OSpell for Opera far supe­rior and I des­per­ately wanted the same fea­tures in Fire­fox. Until recently no exten­sion or user script could offer the same functionality.

With the intro­duc­tion of After the Dead­line things changed. It’s unob­tru­sive and it doesn’t slow down Fire­fox (Yes, I’ve already decreased the value of extensions.spellcheck.inline.max-misspellings to 50 or so). Any­way, AtD pro­vides a small icon in the lower right cor­ner of text areas which you click to check the text it con­tains. It also has a nice options dia­log and the lat­est ver­sion (1.11) fixes a few bugs. Check it out!