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Echekwara

Spell Check does not work in Thunderbird 60.3.0

ash1702 replied
marcoporcellini

I have just upgraded to Thunderbird 60.3.0 and prior to this, I used to just right click in the middle of an email text and I could spell check the whole fields of text easily, with all errors highlighted at once. Now I find this option is greyed out for both new messages and replies. This used to be a really useful tool (and I would have thought pretty fundamental) and I don't understand why it would stop functioning on this new version?

I have just upgraded to Thunderbird 60.3.0 and prior to this, I used to just right click in the middle of an email text and I could spell check the whole fields of text easily, with all errors highlighted at once. Now I find this option is greyed out for both new messages and replies. This used to be a really useful tool (and I would have thought pretty fundamental) and I don't understand why it would stop functioning on this new version?

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Do you have a dictionary installed?

Right click in the body of the email you are writing and select languages

That's fixed it. The dictionary I had installed had been rendered incompatible with the update so I got a new one. Thanks!

what dictionary? Special attempts were make to make dictionaries compatible with V60 so which failed?

Yes, please tell us!

Hello! Actually, it is not a reply but a question. My mailer was also upgraded to version 60.3 recently, and I found that an Estonian spell-checker ceased to work. In the Dictionaries sections of Add-ons it is indicated as incompatible with Thunderbird 60.3. I cannot find a compatible Estonian spell-checker on addons.thunderbird.net. Does it exist?

Thanks, it works.