Anyone else running into an issue where the built in Firefox spell checker just simply stops working? After about a day of use on a new install of Firefox the spell checker completely stops working for me. I've tripled checked to make sure I have it enabled and sure enough I do. This is rather frustrating because I find it very useful.
Firefox Spell Checker Issue
- Thread starter Skrying
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Lol, that's certainly not the case. I'm a horrible speller, and even when I make simple typos to test it it shows nothing.
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
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I have found that on some websites (like B3D for instance) they are doing something in their HTML that seems to disable it by default. On most other sites, the spellchecker is just on by default, but on B3D I have to click inside the text entry area, right-click and choose "spell check this field" in order to turn it on again.
I don't have to do that. Maybe it's because I use a newer version. Do you have the "get bookmark add-ons" link in the bookmarks-menu?
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
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No I don't - where's that from? I am running all the latest official Firefox/spelling addons, but I'm using the British dictionary.
I have:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
(Firefox is spelled incorrectly
)
I downloaded from the official link on day one IIRC. Then I downloaded again a couple of days later and suddenly that bookmark-link was there.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
(Firefox is spelled incorrectly
)I downloaded from the official link on day one IIRC. Then I downloaded again a couple of days later and suddenly that bookmark-link was there.
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Maybe you are using the WYSIWYG posting interface (on forums). It doesn't work if you use that.
You can change the setting from your user cp, it's in the "edit options" right at the bottom.
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