Does it work? Firefox Spell Check

[Mike]

Hi guys,

 

I'm a Firefox user that has been labouring under the misapprehension that the spell check inb my browser was turned off, as it never picks up any spooling mistooks I make when posting to the forum.  Today I finally checked, and the little tick-box is ticked, so I should be getting little red squiggles under my errorrs.  No.  I'm nott, and I'm confused.  I've raised a query with support, but I was wondering if any of you are having a similar situation.

 

Do you get squgglee liynes under your spullings in Fiyrefox when poe sting on the forumm?  Chrome works for me, incidentally so I'm fairly sure it's not my PC and my Firefox is updated to the latest version.

[bootneck]

Hi Mike,

 

I am using Firefox and I am getting the red underlined spelling advisories, as can be seen here:

 

 

Mike

 

[Mike]

vote then chap!   Also, can you find out which version of FF you're using?

[andyf117]

Content withdrawn - I will NOT be threatened by a moderator, simply because I queried the actions of another...

Edited June 27, 2020 by andyf117

[Vinnie]

I find 'Grammarly' very useful. It's a free download and will check your spelling and grammar in virtually any application you use, including BM.

[Mike]

Funnily enough, I've just downloaded that very thing, and its first attempt to correct an error I made on purpose didn't go well! It is highlighting words it doesn't understand, but isn't being very helpful with replacing them.  It also keeps having a go at me for using too many commas (in its not-so humble opinion).

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

I find that most of (about 90%) my typo’s come from my Fat Sausage fingers Typing on a Cellular screen. 

[Alex Gordon]

Yes,I do see the red squigglies that point either to my keyboard dyslexia or an unknown (to it) word such as "squigglies".I'm on 52.5.2 (32 bit) as updated on startup yesterday evening.XP user at this end because I see no requirement to stop using a perfectly adequate functioning machine on the whim of firms who don't operate on my little budget. 

[cocky05d]

If you ask Firefox ,they will tell you which version you are using.

[CedB]

I'm on v 51 too and I have the 'check my spelling as I type' selected in preferences with the Eng(UK) dictionary.

It defeenatly dus squiggles.

Especially the 'm' in I'm. Annoying.

[Mike]

I'm heading toward the conclusion that something somewhere is purposely switching off my spell-check from within FF.  I've checked the element picker details, and it is being switched off by a spellcheck="false" switch in the HTML, but I don't yet know what it is that's causing that.  I guess the next step is to go through and switch off all my plug-ins to see if it's one of them, which will be time consuming, as I have quite a few.  If anyone has any short-cuts up their sleeve that can diagnose the issue quickly, I'm all ears.  I've even been into the text-based settings and checked that too, which all says "on"

[tonyh]

I'm on 57.02 as weel. (with squiggly lines)

Edited December 13, 2017 by tonyh