Reviews for Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool
Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool by LanguageTooler GmbH
Review by Firefox user 19640046
Rated 2 out of 5
by Firefox user 19640046, 3 months agoFirst I must say the extensions primary function works really well, if that is all you care about ignore the 2 star score or the rest of the review.
Where I feel missed led is the "recommended" tag from Firefox. I assumed it guaranteed some sort of privacy/protection grantee or criteria that had to be followed. It apparently does not as I read the policy of both the larger company and the specifics of the extension. Their overarching policy of Learneo(main company) in general is horrendous with AI trained on your data and selling you info to third party sight and much more.
The worst in my opinion that stems from the extension is that it will send 15 strings (symbols like letters and numbers) before and after EVERY ignored suggestion. This might include personal sensitive details such as, passwords, emails and much more.
So yeah if you care about privacy or privet details don't enable it on most sights or remove the extension entirely.
(Be aware though that removing it will send them information like the URL for the last website used the service on)
Where I feel missed led is the "recommended" tag from Firefox. I assumed it guaranteed some sort of privacy/protection grantee or criteria that had to be followed. It apparently does not as I read the policy of both the larger company and the specifics of the extension. Their overarching policy of Learneo(main company) in general is horrendous with AI trained on your data and selling you info to third party sight and much more.
The worst in my opinion that stems from the extension is that it will send 15 strings (symbols like letters and numbers) before and after EVERY ignored suggestion. This might include personal sensitive details such as, passwords, emails and much more.
So yeah if you care about privacy or privet details don't enable it on most sights or remove the extension entirely.
(Be aware though that removing it will send them information like the URL for the last website used the service on)
4,842 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by H2O, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12775409, 3 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Virtpunk, 3 days agoA huge thank you to the person who wrote a review below. I've been using this extension for five years, and in the latest version, either there's an unintentional bug, or the developers intentionally introduced a leak that hadn't existed for 10 years.
This extension is currently causing a memory leak in the browser, even when I'm not opening anything and only on one page. It reaches 60 gigabytes for me, after which everything in the OS starts crashing with errors, from the browser to other programs.
I've been racking my brains for 2-3 weeks of torment, I couldn't figure out what was going on, because I've been using all the extensions for years and everything has been working without a hitch for a long time.
And it turns out that's what it is. The extension, which had been reliable for years, is now leaky and buggy, leaking 40-60 gigs of memory.
As soon as I removed this extension, everything has been fine for several weeks now. - Rated 5 out of 5by MohamedSubarashi, 5 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Russ Brown, 6 days agoMuch more through and intuitive than any other grammar and spell checker I have used.
- Rated 5 out of 5by MaB, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18062762, 12 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Jed, 12 days agoThis is a great tool, however it needs some improvements. The button that is displayed when the user types in the text field, overlaps with the button displayed by another add-on - "DeepL: AI translator and writing assistant". Can this be fixed?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17472807, 18 days agoReally nice, and for me at least, it even seems to be free!
- Rated 5 out of 5by obook, 20 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by kip, 21 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Voytash, 22 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, 22 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tech Cube, 23 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SxbZer0, 24 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19675361, 25 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by L J Boorer, a month 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., a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Elvin, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by pfhgjk0, a month ago