For those of you who don’t keep a miniature English teacher on your desktop to help you with your writing woes, there is After the Deadline.  Now, I have already told you before about the great bookmarklet they provide to help you with your spelling and grammar errors, but now they have a Firefox extension too.

After the Deadline bring a smart, contextual spelling and grammar checker to the Firefox browser.  Once installed, all you have to do is click on the check icon displayed on text areas of web forms to check your grammar and your spelling.  Click it one more time to finish your proofreading.

You can see it in action here:

I just can not highly suggest using this add-on for Firefox enough.  You can pick up the After the Deadline Firefox add-on on the Firefox Add-ons web site.

The first step to take would be to bookmark this link (or drag and drop it onto your bookmarks toolbar).

+ spell check

When the bookmarklet is clicked, Firefox will turn on the built in spellchecker and highlight any misspelled words that are on the page you are currently browsing.  You can check for suggested changes too, of course they will not be saved to the page though.  This quick bookmarklet does come in might handy though for anybody who spends their time proof reading any online content.

(Kudos to Download Squad and UrbanoAlvarez.es!)

Just type in about:config into your address bar to get started.  Next, into the filter text box, type in layout.spell.  That should bring up the preference name layout.spellcheckDefault. Right-click it, and then select “Modify”.  Change the 1 (default value) to 2 and you should be all set. 

Firefox’s built in spell check will now check all text fields, no matter where or how they are used on the web site in question. 

All you need to do is right-click on the word and select “Add to Dictionary”.