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Firefox Tweak To Enable In-Line Spell Check In All Textboxes And Webforms

Submitted by admin on Sun, 02/17/2008 - 14:23

Firefox SpellChecker By default Firefox's in-line spell checker does not work in all text-boxes and forms and you need to right-click and select “Spell check this field” to manually start spell-check, however this behavior can be automatically activated by following the steps provided below.

  1. Type about:config in your Firefox address bar and press Enter.
  2. Type layout.spell in filter text box.
  3. Change the value to 2 as shown below.


    4. Firefox SpellChecker

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hi

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 01/23/2009 - 11:05.

hiiiiiiiiiiiii

^_^

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 04/10/2009 - 01:23.

Thanks! This sure helps a lot. *hugs*

Spellcheck

Submitted by mikeart7 (not verified) on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 23:20.

Great tip i need that as my spelling is a bit suspect! at times cheers Mike.

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