Reviews for Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool
Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool by LanguageTooler GmbH
Review by Elvin
Rated 5 out of 5
by Elvin, a month ago4,861 reviews
- It used to be a 5 stars plugin, but since the January 2026 update, whenever I switch this plugin on, firefox crashes on my Macbook. It totally eats all the memory. I reported it as a bug more than a month ago but haven't heard from them. So, for now, it will stay switched off.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19858982, 2 days agoIt's even worse than the built in spell checking of FF.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19857896, 2 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Dandroid, 3 days agoIt isn't shown on here, but if you click the link in their "about" section, you can see that they now use AI to scan and check your text, which is probably why I've been getting so many errors in it lately, including ones for proper nouns that weren't there before.
In short, don't use it. It doesn't work like it used it, and as it is using AI, there is the potential for it to be using your own text to train models. Uninstall it if you have it already. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19854720, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16134362, 3 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Maud Royer, 4 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by M39, 4 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Duarte Guerra, 5 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by yk, 5 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19839761, 6 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tanxowski, 7 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19834494, 8 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by oichtental, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Wilf, 10 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Iori, 11 days agoThis is an evil extension!!! Why? We have been scratching our heads to find out why there is a consistent memory leak issue. It has wasted a lot of our precious time! Moreover, we even consider adding more memory but the memory price is very high now! We have never felt such pain in recent years! We are very angry that this poor plugin is so popular and has not fixed this issue in the shortest time.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Wimpers, 12 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by H2O, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12775409, 15 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Virtpunk, 15 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.