in browser spelling check concerns

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Not the fun I have with this, but the information it can export to MS and Google if you click the show password button..

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-microsoft-can-get-your-passwords-via-web-browsers-spellcheck/

 

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As pointed out in the article linked to on Bleeping Computer, it’s a simple fix for both browsers: A simple toggle setting in Chrome, and uninstalling an add-on in Edge.

However, although the article only mentioned Chrome and Edge specifically, this also might be present to some degree in other Chrome-based browsers besides Edge. Therefore, if you’re using one, carefully check within its settings to see if your individual browser might have a similar looking setting that might need to be turned off or changed to a basic spell checking setting as shown in the article.

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oldguy wrote:

Not the fun I have with this, but the information it can export to MS and Google if you click the show password button..

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-microsoft-can-get-your-passwords-via-web-browsers-spellcheck/

 

MS already knows all your passwords using its keylogger / telemetry, so one more way won’t change much.

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Got a source for that “they know your passwords” statement?

Note this is not a default in Google and you are warned when you enable it that this will occur.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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No enhanced spell checking in Brave.

cheers, Paul

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Microsoft Editor, if installed in Edge, can be disabled on any specific site with two clicks:

Editor’s settings let you choose what Editor checks for, and you can switch Editor off for websites where you don’t want the service.

Welcome to the Microsoft Editor browser extension

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My 105.0.1343.42 version of Edge includes the Microsoft Editor and it’s not an extension.

It was also enabled by default so I changed it to Basic.

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Just another Forum Poster wrote:

My 105.0.1343.42 version of Edge includes the Microsoft Editor and it’s not an extension

Yep. The Bleeping Computer article is out of date. I have been scratching my head about that article as Edge has included the Microsoft Editor for some time now. I couldn’t figure out why Edge was suddenly trying to correct my grammar since I had no extension for that installed. Turned out the Microsoft Editor got ENABLED on some recent update of Edge. Grrrr…

I did go just now (out of curiosity) and looked at the Microsoft Editor as an extension from my default browser (Fx 91 ESR) and, of course, it was not offered to me. Then I looked for it from Edge and weirdly it was offered to me! Weirdly because it is already installed and was set by DEFAULT to Microsoft Editor NOT to Basic. Of course, I changed the setting back to Basic. If Microsoft cannot see that their Editor is already installed and set to Basic on my Edge and thus I am offered the extension….geez….sigh…Microsoft just gets worse and worse.

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Mele20 wrote:

I did go just now (out of curiosity) and looked at the Microsoft Editor as an extension from my default browser (Fx 91 ESR) and, of course, it was not offered to me.

Microsoft Editor for Firefox is available to download here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/microsoft-editor/

Mele20 wrote:

Then I looked for it from Edge and weirdly it was offered to me! Weirdly because it is already installed and was set by DEFAULT to Microsoft Editor NOT to Basic. Of course, I changed the setting back to Basic. If Microsoft cannot see that their Editor is already installed and set to Basic on my Edge and thus I am offered the extension….geez….sigh…Microsoft just gets worse and worse.

Was it offered to you or did you go looking for it?

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Paul T wrote:

No enhanced spell checking in Brave

I was wondering about that and was going to check it next. I don’t use Brave that often but do use it so thanks for letting us know it has no enhanced spell checking.

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b wrote:

Was it offered to you or did you go looking for it?

I said in my reply that “I looked for it” so, no, it was not offered spontaneously. I looked for Edge extensions for Windows 10.

It still wants to install on Edge. Makes no sense since it is part of Edge already and I was on Edge when I looked for Edge extensions and this one in particular. It must be the way Microsoft has set up getting and installing extensions on Edge on Windows 10. My expectation is that the “Get” button on that extension’s page looking from Edge browser on my computer should be GRAYED OUT since I already have it embedded in Edge. Seems to me that it should have told me “you already have this embedded in Edge. You do not need the extension.”

I don’t use Edge much but do have a few extensions for it. Maybe the extension is somewhat different from embedded Microsoft Editor so that’s why it is offered and it would fail to install if I tried? I’m tempted to just click the “Get” button that is active for this extension and see what happens but it could create a mess on a browser I don’t use often and not that familar with fixing problems for it.

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Mele20 wrote:

“you already have this embedded in Edge. You do not need the extension.”

If you select ‘get’ you will receive “the extension is already installed…” or something along this line.
That what I get when trying to install already installed software.

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