From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L2NlF-0005FZ-37 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:24:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87FA2E047E; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:24:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (crowfix.com [216.240.38.154]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02581E047E for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:24:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 1265 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Nov 2008 10:24:38 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:24:38 -0800 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken Message-ID: <20081118102438.GA1085@crowfix.com> References: <184110a70811180154w1ab7a717vdf3fcdc9e1adddff@mail.gmail.com> <200811181205.10777.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200811181205.10777.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 1041158f-b348-4279-b847-d311c13a2b43 X-Archives-Hash: c9633acf91ae8141c915835c31ee3b33 On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:05:10PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 18 November 2008 11:54:15 Mike Mazur wrote: > > With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled > > something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to > > Firefox 3 this no longer happens. > > edit -> preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> Browsing What I see is random words with red squiggly underlines. I never cared much for spell checkers, but it used to at least be correct. Now it seems like half the words will be underlines regardless of anything approaching correct spelling.> -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o