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wlll on May 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome exten...

Firefox dsoe nto spel chcek fomr feilds. This comment didn't get any spell checking whatsoever. Last time I investigated this the suggestion was to install a plugin, a hoop I think is unreasonable to make people jump through. I'm using a vanilla Firefox install on a Mac. I've not fiddled with it in any way.

update It seems there is a preference:

https://dl.sendcat.com/8BEOaD0qwKgHhIizbRLif8G572x4RgKGGLvcp...

It was selected already but I still don't get spell checking.

jonesnc on May 30, 2019 [–]

https://i.imgur.com/SZP9n3b.png

That's what I see in Firefox on Mac.

wlll on May 30, 2019 | [–]

US user? Apparently you have to install an add-on to get non en-US spell checking.

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