Google and Microsoft have been working together to make spellcheck on Chrome and Edge browsers better and this particular assignment is intended to not just help Chrome but also enable Edge browser to have an improved spellcheck. The Chromium project is a free and open-source repository, just like Android. Anyone can use it, edit it, or build upon it. Google’s Chrome browser is based on this project, and so is Microsoft’s Edge. Other browsers utilizing this backend technology are Torch, Brave, Amazon Silk, and many more.

 The latest versions of Chrome and Edge are now powered by the built-in Windows Spellcheck feature rather than the previous Hunspell open source implementation. The switch means spellcheck within Chrome and Edge will now have better support for URLs, acronyms, email addresses, and an improved shared custom dictionary.

“This feature was developed as a collaboration between Google and Microsoft engineers in the Chromium project, enabling all Chromium-based browsers to benefit from Windows Spellcheck integration,” explains Microsoft’s Edge team.

In a blog post via The Verge Microsoft’s Edge team explains that a “collaboration between Google and Microsoft engineers in the Chromium project” has resulted in support for the built-in Windows spellcheck tool to be supported in both browsers. This means that, for Windows 8.1 and above users, both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge use the system tool instead of the open-source Hunspell Spellcheck.

If you’re not seeing the new spellcheck support show up in Chrome, then you may need to enable a flag to get it straight away. Head to chrome://flags/ and search for “Use the Windows OS spell checker” and enable this setting and restart Chrome.

Microsoft has been contributing to Chromium and helping improve both Edge and Chrome ever since its surprise decision to switch to Chromium last year. While there have been hundreds of commits, user-facing changes aren’t always obvious like this. Using the built-in Windows spellcheck tool, errors won’t be counted as often for URLs, words behind a hashtag, and acronyms, too.

Source- The Verge