Harper is a great grammar checker that never sends information to the cloud. It runs locally by default, and serves suggestions nearly instantly. One downside, though, is that it’s currently English-only.
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Interesting tool. Will have to whack it out this weekend and get back it my thoughts on it. From a very cursory look, it feels promising.
I could use that,my grammar is very bad.
I installed it as a VSCodium extension, and it works great, but the issue is you cannot add words to dictionary. For example, it says uBlock is a mistake and should be unlocked, but I have no way to say uBlock is a correct word.
I just added Harper to Vivaldi to test it out. It did not work for me, and made my browser extremely slow. It also bugged the UI, of Vivaldi, and did not allow me to use my extensions UI, unless I disabled it.
I’m not trying to gatekeep but your first mistake was using Vivaldi.
Why is that?
Because it is an inferior browser from a privacy and security POV.
I don’t see how this is relevant when it comes to the extension? It fits perfectly into my threat model, and I use multiple browsers, each with its own use case. So, again.. I don’t see how adding Harper to a browser other than Brave or Firefox is a mistake.
I would understand the issue if I was using Vivaldi for sensitive tasks that require high privacy, or even anonymity. That certainly could be called a mistake. For this scenario, I use the Mullvad browser and the Tor browser.
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I never said adding the extension to Vivaldi is a mistake. If you read my comment again, I said using Vivaldi itself was a mistake from a privacy and security POV.
I think you misunderstood. Either way, like I said, I don’t want to gatekeep. I was just asking.
My grammar could sure use some help.
Let’s eat grandma!
As a Chromium extension, it does have that feature. Odd.