anybody remember how to fix firefox spellcheck to work in the subject line?

[Kali]

dammit

[Ptah]

1. Yes.

[Kali]

12. for that, you get a

[Ptah]

16. I was channeling taterguy

[petronius]

2. Holy shit, there's a way to do that?! I'll be watching this thread with great

interest; 99% of my edits are due to subject line typos, and I hate besmirching my 'contributions' with that fugly red line...

(Sorry if this reply made you think you were getting the answer! )

[Kali]

13. Make7 to the rescue

see below

[petronius]

17. I was 99.9% sure that that's where the answer would be coming from

Make7 is a mighty resource...

[Major Nikon]

3. I know of a workaround

[Kali]

14. very funny, you get

too. (most of my errors are typos, not particularly lack of actual spelling ability - not all, though)

[southerncrone]

4. m-w.com

type in word the way you think it should be spelled & they will give you options it thinks you are trying to spell.

Might increase your vocabulary, too, if you spend some time there. Good site.

Sorry, I don't know the quickie way using spell check.

[southerncrone]

5. Just figured it out!

HIGHLIGHT the subject line & then click the spell check button!

[Kali]

11. I was doing it by right-clicking and then selecting check spelling

but Make7 came to the rescue!

[Make7]

6. Type 'about:config' in address bar.

Search for layout.spellcheckDefault and change the value to 2.

[pintobean]

8. Thank you

That works.
I've been using DU's spell check, but it started crashing Firefox since I updated Ff yesterday morning.

[HopeHoops]

9. Wow. Thanks! That's a nice trick!

[Kali]

10. different than I remember (not that I remember very well)

but THANK YOU so much! small but persistent irritation!

[Locut0s]

7. Switch to Chrome ;) jk

[Kali]

15. do you have any idea how long it took me to get around to abandoning IE for Firefox?

you get one too!