The new Spellcheck in Firefox 2

I have Firefox 2 GB installed - the Help menu tells me so:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

But the spell check is highlighting "colour" but not "color ".

Am I missing something?

language is set in Options | Advanced to en-gb, but that I guess, is about something else.


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mm

After some investigation I find a folder called "Dictionaries" only has the US files in - so I copy the GB files from Myspell in Thunderbird. Ffox still using US Dict. I rename those files (ad XXX to their names), but Ffox will still not use the GB dictionary and will not (unsurprisingly) spellcheck at all.

I suppose I could rename the GB files "US ", but that's a hack and a half.

Again let me say

"Am I missing something? "

In the dim recesses of my mind I seem to remember having to hand copy those GB dictionaries from Open Office into the Tbird Folder to make it recognise British misspellings.

 

mm

Right click in a text area to download another dictionary.

Quote:

Dictionaries for several locales can't be packaged with the builds, and must be manually downloaded by right-clicking in a text area and selecting "Add Dictionaries..." from the shortcut menu. New dictionaries are regularly being added to Mozilla Add-ons, so if you don't see the particular dictionary you need, check back later.

Endquote.

Now isn't that an odd way to do things - I would expect to set it up in Options.

But its working now.

 

You might wish to try installing this extension which is a 'Canadian' dictionary but accomplishes what you want in terms of colour versus color or cheque versus check or centre versus center ....

If this link doesn't take you to it directly, I found it on Mozilla's website under extensions, then 'dictionaries'... https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3653/

Hope this helps

 

Besides the right-click method, info about & download or installation of the "British English Dictionary" for Firefox 2 is available @ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3366.