Make Firefox spell-check all form fields

June 27, 2007 Posted by Michael

I love Firefox’s built-in spellchecker, especially when I’m blogging. Unfortunately, by default it only runs spellcheck in text-boxes (the form fields that allow for multiple lines of input). Well, with one small tweak of Firefox’s config file you can make spellcheck work in every form field!

  • In the address bar enter about:config
  • Filter for layout.spellcheckDefault
  • Double click the value and change it to 2
  • Restart Firefox

via kevinhasablog

About Michael

Michael Sauers is currently the Technology Innovation Librarian for the Nebraska Library Commission in Lincoln, Nebraska and has been training librarians in technology for more than 15 years. He has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller. He earned his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael’s tenth book, Blogging & RSS: A Librarian’s Guide, Second Edition was published October 2010 with three more books to be published in 2012. He has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs Web sites for authors and historical societies, takes many, many photos, and reads more than 100 books a year.

4 Responses to Make Firefox spell-check all form fields

  1. Cliff says:

    Thank you!

  2. Anonymous says:

    Thank you!

  3. Kjeld says:

    Great! I have been wondering about this for years.

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