I have to admit my spelling isn't PERFECT (and my grammar is even worse, but that's not the point here). Firefox's spelling correction feature for textboxes is a VERY handy tool for us ChaCha'ers... from the common "teh" misspelling to the "CHaCha" (lets hope none of you have gotten a QC for that), but what about the extremely lazy folk like me? What if its TOO MUCH to look at your message and locate all the underlined words, right click, and correct? Why doesn't Firefox have an auto-correct feature?
Well, I bet none of you are lazy enough to even think of searching for something like this (thank goodness)... but just recently I did a quick search and, to my surprise, no Firefox addon that does this.... NONE!
I didn't give up, and I found Universal Auto-Correct. Originally built as a add-on to another program, this script autocorrects most common typos (just like Microsoft Word does). It uses Wikipedia's list of common misspellings, and can be customized with your own words as well (I haven't figured this out yet). This program runs outside-Firefox, so it will work with all programs: your AIM, email, blog, ChaCha. This program only takes up 5MB of memory usage, so it won't slow down your computer much at all. You can download it through Lifehacker's servers here.
Want to run this program on Windows Start-up? Paste a shortcut into your Startup folder: C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
Here's the program in action:
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