How to Force Mozilla Firefox In-line Spell Checker to Work in Textboxes and Web Forms?



If you are a Firefox user, you must have noticed that its in-line Spell Checker doesnt work in forms, text boxes, rich text editors, etc. You need to manually right-click in the box and enable "Spell check this field" option to check the spelling.

Here is a solution for this annoying problem:

1. Type about:config in Firefox addressbar and press Enter.

2. Now type layout.spell in Filter box.

3. You'll see layout.spellcheckDefault in result.

4. Double-click on it and change its value to 2

5. Thats it. Now Firefox will check every textbox, etc in webpages.



This article was posted in Mozilla Firefox, Troubleshooting.

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4 Comments

  • vicky

    I am using Firefox/3.0 with win XP. My in-line Spell Checker doesnt work at all. It used to in my Mac version, but not now, even though I tried all this. :sad:

  • VG

    ^^ I think no dictionary is installed in your Firefox. Right-click in any text box and click on "Add Dictionary" option. Then install "en-US" dictionary.

  • coldroll

    Thanks VG you fixed my problem :)

  • banti

    how can use and installed in your firefox. so please suggest and prosess also .

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