Add Firefox's Spell-check Feature To Forms


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Firefox 3 comes with a handy-dandy built-in spell-checker. If you've ever used, say, Google Docs or posted a message in an online forum, you've probably seen it at work: A red line appears under each misspelled word. Right-click the word to see spelling suggestions (along with the usual context-menu options).

It's a great feature, but it has just one shortcoming: It doesn't work in Web forms. Well, not yet, anyway: It's a simple matter to tweak the spell checker so it pulls form duty. Here's how:

Open Firefox, then type about:config in the address bar and hit Enter. In the Filter box, type spellcheck. Right-click layout.spellcheckDefault, and then click Modify. Raise the value from 1 to 2. Restart Firefox.

Now the spell-checker should work in most online forms.

Rick Broida writes PC World's Hassle-Free PC blog.

Networkworld - http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/0429...rom.html?page=2

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