Google and Microsoft have worked hand in hand to improve spelling and grammar correction in Chrome and Edge.
By choosing to base its Edge web browser on Chromium, the open source version of Chrome, Microsoft is actively contributing to the development of new features to Google’s open source project, and at the same time, to all web browsers that use it. .
Among these contributions, Microsoft has worked on the possibility of using the native Windows 10 spell checker in Edge 83, instead of the open source Hunspell project, used by default in Chromium-based browsers and which is not without flaws. Among the criticisms, this one has the annoying habit of underlining in red the URLs, acronyms, e-mail addresses, or even certain expressions specific to certain dialects, which he does not recognize and therefore considers to have errors in the fields. where the user can enter text.
By integrating its spelling and grammar checker into Edge, Microsoft offers Chromium a much more efficient tool than Hunspell, and allows all browsers that use it to benefit from it.
However, this new feature is not activated by default and requires a little quick manipulation.
2. Access the Flags
The Windows 10 corrector is currently available on an experimental basis on Chrome. To activate it, you will therefore need to access Flags, a menu grouping together hidden functions being tested in the browser.
To access Flags on Chrome, simply enter Chrome: // flags in the address bar and validate.
3. Find and activate the function
In the search field displayed at the end of the flags page, search for Use the Windows OS spell checker.
Click on the Default drop-down menu, and change the value to Enabled. Then click on Relaunch to restart Chrome so that it takes into account the changes made.
You should now be able to take advantage of Windows 10’s spelling and grammar correction directly in Google Chrome’s text entry fields.