Not sure why, but after the recent UI update on reddit - LanguageTool no longer highlights errors in text, and it only happens on reddit, while using firefox. I’ve tried clearing cache, cookies, reinstalling the LanguageTool, but nothing helped. It still counts errors, and I can click on the addon button and see them, although I’ve noticed that highlighted suggestions in blue text bubbles are also sometimes missing text, again only on reddit. Disabling new UI fixes the issues, and I haven’t found any other sites yet where those issues appear.
Could you send a screenshot with more context? I cannot reproduce the issue so far, and I seem to be using the new design (at least it’s not turned off in my settings).
In the first two examples, I am using new UI, and you can see that incorrect words aren’t underscored with red line, but without new UI they are correctly underscored. You can also see on the second screenshot that for some reason blue text bubbles are messed up, missing letters or words, when I clicked on the LanguageTool button.
Thanks, I can reproduce now, and I see it’s already fixed in the latest dev version. I’ll remind the dev team to make a new release soon.
Thanks.
Just to clarify - the addon in firefox says it was updated yesterday, it wasn’t the fix yet though?
Are you looking in the settings of your own Firefox? The latest update was about a month ago (see store entry):
Yeah, was looking at settings. Weird.
Do you have any idea when? We’re coming up on 2 months since this one was identified…
… And 2 months later, again …
Still doesn’t seem to work on Reddit using Firefox. Extension is v8.10.4.
It works for me, using the same version of the add-on and Firefox. How exactly can the issue be reproduced?
I can try a clean Firefox profile later if that might be relevant, but I have the same in my main Firefox and my dedicated FirefoxPWA for Reddit (it has 1Password, but no other extensions, and no other shared configuration with my main Firefox).
- Go to r/somewhere-you-can-post
- Click
Create a post - Type some jabberwonky text with a spelling mistake to trigger LanguageTool, like this sentence.
I don’t get the red underline or the circle in the bottom-right corner using the Markdown editor (the plaintext version), I do see it in the Rich Text editor (with the visible formatting controls).
Firefox 127.0.2 (64-bit).
And I did double-check settings for this site to make sure I didn’t have it disabled.
Could you click the Markdown Editor button and try the other one?
I’ll experiment when I’m back in my office in a couple hours.
Ah, I can reproduce with that. They add spellcheck="false" to their HTML code with that editor, and LT turns itself off then. spellcheck="false" can be useful for non-human languages like source code, so we don’t just want to ignore it.