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Firefox doesn't like trailing apostrophes

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Firefox does not like text contained in single quotation marks or trailing apostrophes.

'apostrophes'

Firefox - the peoples' browser.

I can get around this by istalling the Grammarly addon.

Firefox does not like text contained in single quotation marks or trailing apostrophes. 'apostrophes' Firefox - the peoples' browser. I can get around this by istalling the Grammarly addon.
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It shouldn't be a problem if a word is marked as misspelled. You can simply ignore this in case you are sure that it is OK.

This looks like a regression in Firefox 68 that is fixed in Firefox 70 Nightly (might possibly be back ported to 68 ESR).

  • Bug 1565919 - Firefox in-built spellcheck for English en-US not working properly - single quote marks [70]
  • Bug 1418629 - Spellcheck marks lost for words containing apostrophes [68]

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