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How select dictionary multiple to spell checking?

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How spell check of text by 2 dictionaries without toggling dictionaries?

How spell check of text by 2 dictionaries without toggling dictionaries?

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Note that the bug I posted above has been fixed for Firefox 100 and newer.

Firefox spell checking now checks spelling in multiple languages. To enable additional languages, select them in the text field’s context menu.

See also Switching dictionaries:

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That is currently not possible, you can only select one dictionary at the time.

  • 1402822 - Spellchecker needs to allow multiple language dictionaries at the same time

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This seems odd since it lets me select multiple at the same time. It behaves exactly like https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/785463 described when having multiple selected and trying to write Icelandic/Russian/English

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Note that the bug I posted above has been fixed for Firefox 100 and newer.

Firefox spell checking now checks spelling in multiple languages. To enable additional languages, select them in the text field’s context menu.

See also Switching dictionaries: