How to Enable Spell Check in Text Fields in Firefox
Firefox has its own in-built spell check, but this spell check is available only in Text area and text fields (text boxes) will not show spelling mistakes. Many times blogging titles have spelling mistakes because of this. But a simple trick can activate spell check in text fields as well. To do this, open the config file of Firefox. Type about:config in address bar and press enter.
Now in the filter field, type the following value- layout.spellcheckDefault
The default value of this parameter is 1. Double click on this parameter and change the value to 2. Close config file and now open any page which has a textbox and check for wrong spelling (no restart required).
NB: In case the spell check is still not enabled, right click on the textbox and enable spell check.
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Mar 8th, 2008 at 7:51 am
wow, that was helpful.
Mar 8th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
yo! that worked….. very useful….. thank you………..
Mar 8th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Cool tip, it worked. I was looking for something like this.
Mar 9th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
You know Nirmal, all these years (say about 15) I am working with computers, I never touched spell check. But with what you are saying, I will sure look into it. Thanks,
Sangeeta
http://www.worldinurpocket.com
Mar 9th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Cool tip man. The about:config is full of hidden wonders!
Mar 9th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
something that i was looking for before this. thanx.
Mar 9th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Great tip. I don’t know why they have decided one can make a typo only in text areas
Mar 9th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
@HardGeek, @Tech pavan, @Ram
Glad that it was useful.
@Syahid,
Indeed its full of hidden tricks.
@Hanne,
Glad that you liked it.
Mar 9th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Nice tip. Never knew about it. Thanks for sharing.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Thanks for helping me not look like an idiot!
Jun 29th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Thanks so much.. I’ve been wondering about this for weeks
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