Firefox Facts » text areas http://www.firefoxfacts.com best guide to add-ons, themes and tips for Firefox Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:32:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Spell Check for All Text Areas http://www.firefoxfacts.com/2007/11/06/spell-check-for-all-text-areas/ http://www.firefoxfacts.com/2007/11/06/spell-check-for-all-text-areas/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:10:45 +0000 Mitch http://www.firefoxfacts.com/2007/11/06/spell-check-for-all-text-areas/ Spellchecking FixFirefox’s spell checker has saved my bacon a number of times. Before I had to search around for special tools and services to slap me on the wrist each time I misspelled mississipi..misissippi..Mississippi!

For some reason though, by default Firefox does not do spell checking in all text areas. You can fix that for youself like I did with a little about:config tweaking.

In your about:config (type about:config in the address bar to access) search for this string:

layout.spellcheckDefault

Change the value from 1 to 2 to get spell checking for all text fields and not just the big text area boxes.

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