Posted by: Dale Franks on Sunday, June 25, 2006 One of the frustrations that many people express about dealing with posting comments or what have you using the Firefox browser is that they can't spell check their posts. Internet Explorer, of course, has long had a dedicated spell-checker with the free IESpell application. Well, as it turns out, there is, in fact, a free spell check extension for Firefox/Mozilla that's been around for a while. It's called SpellBound, but unfortunately, it doesn't work with Firefox 1.5. It hasn't been updated for a year or so at its original site, so it's only good for Mozilla, and Firefox 1.0. Happily, however, there has been some new development, and a fresh version of the Spellbound extension is now available for the newer versions of Firefox. To install the extension, open Firefox, and paste the following URL into the browser. http://exchangecode.com/spellbound/downloads/spellbound-dev_20060108.xpi Accept the warning to trust the extension publisher. Once you have done that, you need to install the US English dictionary, by pasting the following URL into the browser: http://downloads.mozdev.org/dictionaries/spell-en-US.xpi Again, trust the publisher to install the extension. Now, close Firefox and restart it. The first time you check spelling, The "Language" drop-down box at the bottom of the spell check form may have to be changed, in order to point to the US English dictionary extension you installed. From that point on, you'll have spell checking available to check any text box entry you make in Firefox. It checks spelling as you type, so that the questionable words are underlined in red. To spell-check, simply right-click inside the text box and select "Check Spelling" from the pop-up menu. I'm always glad to be the bearer of good news. |
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