linux - spell check

[milomak]

running 60.3.0esr on debian sid

under languages, check your spelling as you type is ticked
selected language is en-GB

yet whatver gibberish i have posted on this line has not been picked up by the spell chckr

[milomak]

running extensions

[James]

Only a few locales of the official builds of Firefox from Mozilla like en-US comes with a Dictionary due to license reasons so you need to install a Dictionary, say the English (British) one. Distro provided builds may be a bit different. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/language-tools/

Ignore the Language packs on the page as they are for to change the language of the User Interface or UI.

[milomak]

i'm not understanding what you are saying?

i have stated i have en-GB installed so not sure how en-US comes into play.

[lasardo]

Go to this site https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... age-tools/ scroll down a bit and in the right column click on and install "British English Dictionary (Marco Pinto)" then restart browser and see if spellcheck works.

[James]

i'm not understanding what you are saying?

i have stated i have en-GB installed so not sure how en-US comes into play.

A dictionary is required for the spell checker to use to spell check words with. Only a few languages of Firefox comes with a dictionary due to licensing reasons.

Let's try again, the en-GB aka British version of Firefox does not come with a dictionary so you need to install the English (British) dictionary from https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/language-tools/ which is at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addo ... tionary-2/

Or maybe you need some pictures for you to understand better how to install a dictionary and use the spell checker.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ho ... ll-checker

If by Languages you were looking at "Choose your preferred language for displaying pages" then that was not related to the spellchecker.

[dickvl]

You can see what dictionaries are installed and which is selected if you right-click in a text area and open the Languages sub menu.

See also:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/layout.spellcheckDefault

[milomak]

Go to this site https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... age-tools/ scroll down a bit and in the right column click on and install "British English Dictionary (Marco Pinto)" then restart browser and see if spellcheck works.

thank you sir

[James]

Go to this site https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... age-tools/ scroll down a bit and in the right column click on and install "British English Dictionary (Marco Pinto)" then restart browser and see if spellcheck works.

thank you sir

You're welcome as I mentioned this to you first.

[milomak]

Go to this site https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... age-tools/ scroll down a bit and in the right column click on and install "British English Dictionary (Marco Pinto)" then restart browser and see if spellcheck works.

thank you sir

You're welcome as I mentioned this to you first.

it helps if you give a clear explanantion