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Firefox Enable Internal Spell Checker

I occasionally find a problem with Firefox where it will stop spell checking all fields. It's a small bug, but it's easily fixed.

Firstly, make sure you have spell checking on:

If that is checked then uncheck it and restart the browser, then recheck it and again restart the browser - if the spell check still doesn't work, then once again uncheck the option, then enter about:config in the address bar.

Search for Layout.spellcheckDefault and change the setting from 0 to 1 to enable spell checking in all <textarea> fields, or make the value 2 to enable spell checking in all text input fields.

See also: Layout.spellcheckDefault - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

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