How to enable spell check in Firefox text forms

September 13th, 2007 by Ross McKillop | Print This Post Print This Post
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This brief tutorial will show you how to enable spell check in web page forms (text input fields) in Firefox.

enable spell check in firefox forms

  1. Start by entering about:config in the Firefox address bar (without the http://)
  2. In the Filter: field, enter layout.spellcheck to bring up the layout.spellcheckDefault preference.

    enable spellcheck in firefox forms

  3. Double-click that entry and change the integer value from 1 to 2 and click OK.

    4. enable spell-check in firefox forms

  4. Open a new browser window or tab (or refresh an existing one) and test it out.

    5. enable spellcheck in firefox forms

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  1. 4 Responses to “How to enable spell check in Firefox text forms”

  2. By cw on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply

    This is great–thank you!
    Can anyone tell me how to delete words in the spellcheck dictionary that have been accidentally added?
    Awesome site–I visit every day.
    Thanks!

  3. By Ross McKillop on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply

    cw -

    Lifehacker has you covered -

    http://lifehacker.com/software/dictionary/remove-misspelled-words-from-your-firefox-dictionary-244497.php

    If you’re an OS X user, persdict.dat is in:

    /Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default/persdict.dat

  4. By What is Firefox? on Nov 9, 2007 | Reply

    If you don’t want to enable it globally, you can just right-click a text field and have Fx spellcheck it.

  5. By dinu on Jun 20, 2008 | Reply

    Thanks a lot !!! It worked

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