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Microsoft and Google collaborated to improve spellCheck in Chrome and Edge
Google and Microsoft have worked together to enhance the Chrome and Edge spellcheck experience. Chrome and Edge 's latest versions now feature the built-in Windows Spellcheck instead of the previous open source Hunspell implementation. The commute means that spellcheck is better for URLs, acronyms, electronic addresses and an improved common dictionary in Chrome and Edge.
"This feature was developed through a colliance between Google and Microsoft engineers on a Chrome project to enable Windows Spellcheck integration for all Chromium-based browsers," Microsoft's Edge team explains.
You might need to enable a flag to get it immediately if you don't know the new spell-check support shown in Chrome. Learn about the "Use the Windows OS spell checker" and allow this setup to restart Chrome. Head to the Chrome:/flags.
Since its surprise decision last year to switch to Chromium, Microsoft has contributed to Chromium and has helped improve Edge and Chrome. While hundreds of commitments have been made, changes that are user-facing are not always evident.
We've seen Microsoft help Google update tab management in January, and Microsoft is also improving chrome scrolling with bounce effects and percentage scrolling.
