Spellchecker?

[Scherezade deWinter]

Hey guys,
No clue why this is happening, but my Firefox is not registring its ability to spell check my posts. Swithcing into BBCode mode doesn't seem to solve this. I write a lot and fast and I make a lot of derpy mistakes that I would really rather not share with everyone So short of pasting and repasting to/from Word, what are the odds anyone has a clue on what I can to fix it?

*licks everyone*

 

[Darth Ferus]

Ew Firefox. Go Chrome.

 

[Ashin Varanin]

@[member="Nessarose deWinter"] - Updating Firefox, or going back a version, would probably do it. Spellcheck also works fine on Chrome for this site, and I'm pretty sure you can import favorites and such from Firefox to Chrome.

 

[Scherezade deWinter]

@[member="Ashin Varanin"] Chrome is the devil. I'll see if playing with the version helps. Thanks!

 

[Ashin Varanin]

@[member="Nessarose deWinter"] - Good luck! I'm no techhead. Hopefully one will be along soonish.
Also, I know I find this faster and more reliable than Word - writing posts in Google Docs works well for me.

 

[Ilias Nytrau]

I also use Google Docs for most of my writing. It enables me to work on documents and posts from my tablet - as the editing tools on Chaos don't show up on my tablet - and then I can finish it on my computer at home and post it. Great use of my otherwise useless time on the bus.

 

[Onrai]

Google Docs is nice.

 

[Serian Loria]

I write my posts in a googledoc and so its got a spellchecker, it also autosaves so if anything happens my post is saved and safe.
Thats about all the suggestion I could offer you.

 

[Scherezade deWinter]

I went back to a few older versions of FF. No bueno. I can't spell check my posts without using an external method

 

[Tefka]

I don't rely on forum software's ability to spellcheck posts, and IP software isn't especially good at it.

 

[Scherezade deWinter]

Oh no, not the forum software to do the checking. But I think (not sure if that's the cause) that something in the forum software is actively blocking my Mozilla spellchecker.

 

[Scherezade deWinter]

Well then.
I'm not sure what happened, but I reinstalled the most recent version of Firefox, and now it's working. I need to be in code view for the checker to let me select alternate spelling options, but it at least notifies me even in wyswyg mode. YAY! Not sure how that was solved. But it's solved on my end.

 

[Scherezade deWinter]

Aaaaand since the thread is not closed yet or anything


If anyone else is suffering fromm this, go to setting in the wysiwyg, and check the "paste as plain text by default" button. THIS MAKES THE FIREFOX SPELLCHECKER ACCESS THE TEXT HERE!

 

[Tefka]

Before we're adamant that was the fix, are you sure it wasn't a Firefox extension?

 

[Scherezade deWinter]

Yup, the only FF extensions I have are SEO related, and they've all been disabled since before I joined Chaos.