Chrome: Automatically detect language for spell checking

Question

I use English and German interchangeably when I'm on the net with Chrome.

I really like the spell-checking functionality but find it a bit annoying that I always have to switch manually between the languages for spell checking.

Does anyone know a way how to automate that? Maybe there's a plugin?

Cheers!

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 04 '13 at 23:44

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This is being tracked in issue https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=5102. You should "star" the issue to be notified of progress.

answered Jan 04 '13 at 23:44

rsolomakhin

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good hint - unfortunately there is not much progress! wow, this issue was created in dec 2008! – brgn Apr 30 '14 at 16:45
This is now possible - the issue has been fixed! – Simon Jan 03 '18 at 11:11

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 04 '15 at 16:50

There is also this one: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1834 And this design document: http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/advancedspellchecker

The design looks a bit overkill, I hope they implement something simpler sooner.

Chrome: Automatically detect language for spell checking

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