Reviews for Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool
Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool by LanguageTooler GmbH
Review by Wizard
Rated 1 out of 5
by Wizard, 6 months agoI'm very concerned about privacy with this extension. As an example of what they collect (from their privacy policy).
Usage information (such as the date and time of visits, pages viewed, links to/from any page, and time spent in a session)
Device information (such as your internet protocol (IP) address, Internet service provider, operating system, computer model, language settings and CPU details, referrer URL, time zone information, data volume transferred, access status/ HTTP status code, and web browser type).
Inference Information about your usage of LanguageTool (such as whether you are a frequent document uploader or user of a particular feature). Location information (approximated, based on your IP address).
Almost none of this has anything to do with helping to check spelling and grammar and it goes way beyond what anyone should be willing to share to any company, let alone an extension.
Usage information (such as the date and time of visits, pages viewed, links to/from any page, and time spent in a session)
Device information (such as your internet protocol (IP) address, Internet service provider, operating system, computer model, language settings and CPU details, referrer URL, time zone information, data volume transferred, access status/ HTTP status code, and web browser type).
Inference Information about your usage of LanguageTool (such as whether you are a frequent document uploader or user of a particular feature). Location information (approximated, based on your IP address).
Almost none of this has anything to do with helping to check spelling and grammar and it goes way beyond what anyone should be willing to share to any company, let alone an extension.
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17472807, a day agoReally nice, and for me at least, it even seems to be free!
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Fireblue, 5 days agoHad to open an account just to write that that add-on basically is dead recently. Can't even show basic mistakes and shows mistakes when there aren't any. That add-on is barely working these days.
Also note that Mozilla has removed their "recommended badge" recently for that extension... - Rated 1 out of 5by Voytash, 5 days agoI’ve been using LanguageTool for over 2 years and I really liked it — until about a month ago.
Recently, the extension started causing extreme RAM usage while typing. I have 32 GB of RAM, and during normal use I sit at around 18–20 GB. However, as soon as I start typing in a text field where LanguageTool is active, memory usage quickly spikes to 30–32 GB within seconds, which often leads to Firefox freezing or crashing completely.
This happens multiple times a day. In some cases, just 10–15 seconds of typing is enough to crash the browser. I even had to start writing messages in external apps (like Notepad) and then pasting them, just to avoid crashes — which completely defeats the purpose of using this extension.
What’s strange is that:
- this problem only started about a month ago,
- before that, I had zero crashes for over 2 years,
- I didn’t notice any recent updates that could explain this behaviour.
At this point, the extension has become unusable for me due to its massive resource consumption.
That said, aside from this issue, I really liked LanguageTool and I hope this gets fixed soon. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13644605, 5 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tech Cube, 6 days ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19675361, 8 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by L J Boorer, 9 days agoThis is a very useful add-on to Firefox. It's much more than a spelling checker, having a very good grasp of grammar and a reasonable ability to determine which word you meant to type. It's not perfect, but it's an excellent tool, as long as you don't follow it blindly.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Robin P., 10 days ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by TheTearMiser, 15 days agoSeems to do its job and stay out of the way... key for any grammar and spelling checker. Funnily enough it doesn't work in this box 🤣
- Rated 5 out of 5by kira, 15 days ago
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- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 19769049, 16 days agoUsed to be pretty good. But for the last 2 weeks, it has been eating ram until the browser crashes
- Rated 5 out of 5by JackdawXR, 17 days ago