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Firefox and electro tech - spell checking?

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philba

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I'm using Firefox 2.0 and really like it. The new tabbed interface is great and I really like the in-line spelling check.

However, the in-line spelling check seems to default disabled in the edit controls for posting to electro tech. I can turn it on (right click/spell check this field) and it does work.

Any idea why it's off by default? It's on by default in every other site I've found. It's a great feature and will help to have more understandable postings.

By the way, it's worth the upgrade to FF 2.0 - the tabbed interface makes managing multiple pages a snap.
 
philba said:
By the way, it's worth the upgrade to FF 2.0 - the tabbed interface makes managing multiple pages a snap.

but firefox has always had a tabbed interface... (or at least for as long as I've been using it, which is a long time...) or were you specifically referring to upgrading from IE, rather than an older version of firefox?

I do agree that firefox 2.0 is a good upgrade though.
 
No, I upgraded from FF 1.x.

Yes, the tab interface isn't new but they've improved it. the tabs each have a close button on them (rather than up under the frame close button). This is a much more logical place for it. If you click on an external link (or what ever it's called) in a page, it creates a new tab rather than a new window. I love that feature since I was usually right clicking and selecting open in new tab anyway. This basically avoids page-glut-syndrome. Before, I'd get a gazillion pages and it got confusing pretty fast. Now, your session where you chase links is contained in a single frame. You can turn it off if you want.

And, to get back to my point of posting, the in-line spell checking is really nice. No more looking up a word or misspelling it. This feature should have been done in IE and FF years ago. I'd prefer not to have to turn it on for each post I do here. All the other sites default to it being on.
 
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The Firefox 2 spell check works ok for me.
I used to use the spell checker provided with Google tool bar - but have not needed it since upgrading Firefox.
You need to have it ticked in the advanced options rather than just enabling it by right clicking.
 
I assume you mean tools/options/advanced. It is checked and always has been. Like i said it works with every other site, just not this one.
 
Use the google tool bar. I love it! It fixez mie spellng vrey wlel :) Seriously. It works wonders....
 
Yes the Google toolbar is better than any spell checker but it doesn't help if you've accidentally misspelt a word and you didn't realise it.
 
Hey! I just upgraded from IE 6 to Firefox 2. IE 7 sucks, Firefox 2 is better.

Now to your problem...Aha! this might help!

Go to Tool-------->Options------------>Advanced----->General
and tick the box "check my spelling as I type" and save your settings.

Hope that helped! :D
 
METHAMPHOSiST said:
Now to your problem...Aha! this might help!

Go to Tool-------->Options------------>Advanced----->General
and tick the box "check my spelling as I type" and save your settings.

Hope that helped! :D

Nope. it doesn't

Me some time after the big bang said:
I assume you mean tools/options/advanced. It is checked and always has been. Like i said it works with every other site, just not this one.
 
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