Tardis:Spell checking with Chrome

Spell checking using the Chrome browser is easy to set up and requires no add-ons or extensions. It's important to be spell checking in British English while editing this site, because that's the way we roll on this site.

Setup
Chrome has fairly intelligent British spell checking included by default, which typically responds to your operating system's' localisation settings. In most instances, whatever flavour of English you've chosen to be your system's primary flavour will be automatically detected by Chrome.

Thus, the easiest way of getting British English spell checking in Chrome is to simply change your system's primary language.

Mac users can find an explanation of how to make this change on this wiki. Windows and Linus users can probably figure it out with a search through their system's local help files.

Mac users
The best British spelling available for Mac users is with Safari. That's why we generally recommend that Mac users edit with Safari only.

However, because Chrome is mostly integrated with OS X, most users will have British spell checking by default with Chrome, as long as they've followed the instructions at Help:Spell checking with a Mac. Again, if your OS X installation is set up such that British English is the preferred flavour of English, Chrome will automatically spell check in British English. And the quality of British spell checking is far superior to that which Firefox offers.

Nevertheless, although Chrome offers a solid British spell checking environment, we still recommend that you edit with Safari, especially when you're making larger edits. Why? Chrome doesn't auto-correct or auto-suggest like Safari does. So although it flags misspellings accurately enough, you'll still make fewer British spelling errors with Safari than Chrome.

More info
Probably the best single resource for additional details about this subject is Chrome's own help files that are stored locally on your machine. Just go to the help menu and search for the term "spell check". You'll also