{"id":12426,"date":"2010-09-10T10:49:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T08:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-spellcheck-text-on-firefox\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:10:36","slug":"how-to-spellcheck-text-on-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-spellcheck-text-on-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"How to: Spellcheck text in Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With an ever increasing number of web apps, most of our writing today is done online. Emails, blog posts, web forms\u2026 it\u2019s all text that needs to be revised, just like you do with the spellchecker on any text processor. But <strong>how do you spell-check online text<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is easy, especially if you use Firefox. Chances are that you already have a built-in dictionary in the browser to check English language, which can be easily enabled by right clicking on any form and selecting <strong>Spell check this field<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/09\/check01.jpg\" alt=\"Spellcheck text on Firefox\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t see that option \u2013 or if you need to install extra dictionaries for other languages \u2013 simply right click on any online form and go to <strong>Languages &gt; Add dictionaries\u2026<\/strong> This option will open up a special page on the Mozilla website from which you can download <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/language-tools\/\">extra dictionaries and language packs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/09\/check02.jpg\" alt=\"Spellcheck text on Firefox\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These dictionaries work as extensions, and are installed in exactly the same way. They\u2019ll allow you to revise and correct any text you write online as you type, just like you do with desktop text processing software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an ever increasing number of web apps, most of our writing today is done online. Emails, blog posts, web forms\u2026 it\u2019s all text that needs to be revised, just like you do with the spellchecker on any text processor. But how do you spell-check online text? The answer is easy, especially if you use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-spellcheck-text-on-firefox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to: Spellcheck text in Firefox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-12426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334756,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426\/revisions\/334756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12426"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=12426"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=12426"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=12426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}