Firefox 19 spell checking does not work on Ubuntu 12.10
I am useing: Firefox 19 on Ubuntu 12.10
My spell check does not work. Ubuntu Help suggested downloading the 'English spell checking dictionary addon' for Firefox but when searching firefox addons it says not supported for firefox 19. What now?
Chosen solution
by cor-elThe en-US dictionary should work with Firefox 19: Works with Firefox 2.0 - 22.0
You can see which dictionary is selected if you right-click in a text area and open the Languages submenu.
At least one dictionary should be installed and have a check mark to indicate that it is selected.
- Open the "Add Dictionaries" link to install a dictionary if you do not have one.
- Make sure that [X] "Check Spelling" in the right-click context menu is check-marked.
You can enable or disable spell checking globally:
- Edit > Preferences > Advanced : General: Browsing: "Check my spelling as I type"
You can look here for dictionaries:
Read this answer in context 1Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
- This plug-in detects the presence of iTunes when opening iTunes Store URLs in a web page with Firefox.
- The Totem 3.4.3 plugin handles video and audio streams.
- DivX Web Player version 1.4.0.233
Application
- Firefox 19.0
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
- Support URL: http://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/19.0/Linux/en-US/
Extensions
- Adblock Plus 2.2.3
- Global Menu Bar integration 3.7.2
- Troubleshooter 1.0a
- Ubuntu Firefox Modifications 2.6
- Unity Desktop Integration 2.4.1
- Unity Websites integration 2012.10.12.beta
Javascript
- incrementalGCEnabled: True
Graphics
- adapterDescription: X.Org R300 Project -- Gallium 0.4 on ATI RS690
- adapterDeviceID: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RS690
- adapterDrivers:
- adapterRAM:
- adapterVendorID: X.Org R300 Project
- driverDate:
- driverVersion: 2.1 Mesa 9.0.2
- info: {u'AzureContentBackend': u'none', u'AzureCanvasBackend': u'cairo', u'AzureFallbackCanvasBackend': u'none'}
- numAcceleratedWindows: 0
- numAcceleratedWindowsMessage: [u'']
- numTotalWindows: 1
- webglRenderer: X.Org R300 Project -- Gallium 0.4 on ATI RS690
- windowLayerManagerType: Basic
Modified Preferences
- accessibility.typeaheadfind: True
- browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400
- browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion: 4
- browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID: 20130227155259
- browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone: 19.0
- dom.mozApps.used: True
- extensions.lastAppVersion: 19.0
- network.cookie.prefsMigrated: True
- places.database.lastMaintenance: 1362274472
- places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 46189
- plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types: application/pdf
- privacy.donottrackheader.enabled: True
- privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs: True
- privacy.sanitize.timeSpan: 0
Misc
- User JS: No
- Accessibility: No
This add-on let you install all add-ons, install it firstly, and then install spell-check.
Chosen Solution
The en-US dictionary should work with Firefox 19: Works with Firefox 2.0 - 22.0
You can see which dictionary is selected if you right-click in a text area and open the Languages submenu.
At least one dictionary should be installed and have a check mark to indicate that it is selected.
- Open the "Add Dictionaries" link to install a dictionary if you do not have one.
- Make sure that [X] "Check Spelling" in the right-click context menu is check-marked.
You can enable or disable spell checking globally:
- Edit > Preferences > Advanced : General: Browsing: "Check my spelling as I type"
You can look here for dictionaries:
Question owner
Thanks Cor-el! I have 2 English-North American listed now. I right clicked on the new one I installed because of you and it works great, thanks.