This brief tutorial will show you how to enable spell check in web page forms (text input fields) in Firefox.
- Start by entering about:config in the Firefox address bar (without the http://)
- In the Filter: field, enter layout.spellcheck to bring up the layout.spellcheckDefault preference.
- Double-click that entry and change the integer value from 1 to 2 and click OK.
- Open a new browser window or tab (or refresh an existing one) and test it out.
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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!
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
If you don’t want to enable it globally, you can just right-click a text field and have Fx spellcheck it.
Thanks a lot !!! It worked
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