How to disable the spellcheck feature on Steam chat?

[Msooby]

Since recently, this spell check feature activated on the Steam client and red lines appear under the text. It does not correct anything, it just marks everything with red lines. One of the inconvenient things about spell check is that it can not understand internet speech or multiple languages together so it marks with red lines almost everything and there should be a way to disable it.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

I want that badly in Steam client only available using the web browser.
yeah it can be pretty sad translations agree.
Open Google Chrome and click on Settings button present at the end of the toolbar. ...
Click on "Show advanced settings...
Now scroll down a little and click on Languages > spell-checker pull the slider to left to turn off.
This is a global settings and aplies to all futures web pages you open in Chrome.

[Msooby]

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:

I want that badly in Steam client only available using the web browser.
yeah it can be pretty sad translations agree.
Open Google Chrome and click on Settings button present at the end of the toolbar. ...
Click on "Show advanced settings...
Now scroll down a little and click on Languages > spell-checker pull the slider to left to turn off.
This is a global settings and aplies to all futures web pages you open in Chrome.

I know this already, the problem is with the Steam Client, not the chrome browser, even if you have it disabled on chrome it does not get disabled on Steam.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Currently, the only way is to opt out of the Beta Client.

The released client does not have the spell check as of yet.

[Licorize]

Thanks for posting about this... my heart skipped a beat when i got home tonight, and the chat was suddenly doing this. (1st thought was "VIRUS", and 2nd was "FKN VIRUS/MALWARE" :v )
<3

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Join... https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/1744483505465643428/

[luckz]

Anecdotal but it might also have ballooned RAM usage even more for no reason.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by luckz:

Anecdotal but it might also have ballooned RAM usage even more for no reason.

I don't see any more RAM being used now than before. Still exactly the same.

[Jerry]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

The released client does not have the spell check as of yet.

Eeps... So that's the next threat to come. Good to know in advance, though there is propably no way to stop this, except preventing client updates completely.

[RIP Val Kilmer]

So now that this seems to have hit the main branch, how can I disable it? Or at the very least let me add words to your list of what is considered "correct" so that line disappears.

[onurguzel16]

I'm annoyed by this feature and it underlines almost everyhing in red and we CAN'T disable it. I just read tweaking UserPrefs.json file in htmlcache folder, but can't we just disable it?

It appears to be a new feature but annoying!

Using latest Steam Client and it is up-to-date.

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by onurguzel16:

It appears to be a new feature but annoying!

It's actually not a new feature as it was here in around 2015 too briefly and removed soon afterwards. For the life of me, I don not understand why they've brought it back especially when it functions exactly the same as it did before.

If anyone hasn't seen it already, you can disable it by following these steps https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/1779388024824512006/

[onurguzel16]

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

Originally posted by onurguzel16:

It appears to be a new feature but annoying!

It's actually not a new feature as it was here in around 2015 too briefly and removed soon afterwards. For the life of me, I don not understand why they've brought it back especially when it functions exactly the same as it did before.

If anyone hasn't seen it already, you can disable it by following these steps https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/1779388024824512006/

Actually i started to see it new with recent Steam Client. The client language and OS language is English but locale format is Turkish. For some reason Steam has set it to Turkish regardless client / OS language which is new to me. Annoying. Do we have to wait to remove it?

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by onurguzel16:

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

It's actually not a new feature as it was here in around 2015 too briefly and removed soon afterwards. For the life of me, I don not understand why they've brought it back especially when it functions exactly the same as it did before.

If anyone hasn't seen it already, you can disable it by following these steps https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/1779388024824512006/

Actually i started to see it new with recent Steam Client. The client language and OS language is English but locale format is Turkish. For some reason Steam has set it to Turkish regardless client / OS language which is new to me. Annoying. Do we have to wait to remove it?

You can follow the steps to remove it but there's a possibility that Valve will disable the feature again like they did years ago as it's clearly unworkable in its current state.