predictive text
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esa-aardvark, can you tell us your operating system? Windows 10 has a predictive text function which overrides every browsers' settings. It can be turned off.
Of no importance whatsoever, my father-in-law, a great man from Brussels, Belgium, pronounces the second part of your moniker as aard-wark! I like it!
- Ed
Of no importance whatsoever, my father-in-law, a great man from Brussels, Belgium, pronounces the second part of your moniker as aard-wark! I like it!
- Ed
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Firefox uses Spellchecking (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...-spell-checker), Auto Form Fill (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...ly-fills-forms) and Adress Bar Autocomplete (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...mplete-firefox). It could be either one of those three, depending on where in the browser or on the page you are typing. Have a look at these three information pages as they can explain how to customise the feature to do what you want, or switch it off.
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My phone always replaces words like jeans with Jean's. Yet it has learned: if I type "St" it will offer "Peters" and "Street" which I text two or three times a week to a friend so she knows I will be at her flat in five mins and she can be ready for our walk.
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For iPhones, see here and scroll down to 'how to set up text replacement'. My better half uses a lot of jargon (long words) on her iPad and this feature has turned out to be a real help.
