Open your Firefox to about:config

Change layout.spellcheckDefault to following value options:

0 to turn it off completely
1 to check only in textarea
2 to check textarea and input box

Yay! More Firefox config settings. One day I'm going to just go through all of the different configuration options in Firefox and see what they do. In the meantime, thanks for this one Buffalo.

~Viz

Spell check, for me isn't really useful because when I type in names, it actually ticks me off.

gnutux

As they say, One man's trash is another mans treasure... Not everyone is going to like it, but it is more useful then it is bothersome

If there are names you commonly type (or any other word that spellcheck complains about) you can simply right-click the underlined text and select add to dictionary. Then it won't bug you about them anymore. I don't, however, if later you can remove things from the dictionary.

~Viz

Yes I'm liking this feature myself also. But I don't understand why after upgrading there have been several automatic upgrades since then.

Yup - Viz is right. I always right-click and add the names I use frequently to stop FireFox from bugging me. Later on, if you want to remove a name from the dictionary it's equally easy. You just have to go in a roundabout way.

When you add a word to the Firefox dictionary, it gets stored in a file called persdict.dat, which is located in the Document & Settings > YourWindowsUserName > Application Data > Mozilla > Firefox > Profiles > SomeRandomCharacter.default folder.

The entries are listed in plain-text, one entry per line. To remove a word from the dictionary, simply delete the appropriate line in persdict.dat and you're done. The same goes for removing misspelt words from the dictionary.

If you blog a lot and write about various businesses and companies, you'd require a sizeable list of company names in your dictionary. I'd come across a site which offers such lists of company names (in various sectors) for free. Copying and pasting those lists from their site into persdict.dat makes your life really easy later on. Can't recall the URL though.

Cheers,
m^e

Thank you!

I had always wondered how to do that.

BTW ... I don't use IE7. Does it have spell checking too?

This post has been edited by ginginca: Mar 28 2007, 11:41 AM

Let's find out. I am making this post in IE7. And now I am misssspelling words. No red lines, so no it doesn't seem to by default. However, there are several addons for IE7 that add the functionality such as this one.

~Viz

I was actually going to post something about ieSpell, lol. The only thing I've found with it though (I just found it like two days ago) is that it doesn't show red lines like in Word if you've misspelled a word, but all you have to do is right-click and run the spell check when you've finished typing. Works fine for me!