Spellbound is a great little extension for Firefox. It gives you spell checking support in any area you might type out text into a web page (such as this blog entry I am writing). I’ve been using it for a year or so now and find it to be an excellent solution for this requirement.
If you use Firefox and Spellbound you will have noticed that it was disabled when Firefox updated to 1.5.0.1 or 1.5.0.2 or (as of today) 1.5.0.3 — assuming you allow these auto updates to go ahead. If you would like to continue using Spellbound and Firefox then try out the development version of Spellbound. It seems to work just fine and it also has new features such as spell check as you type (it will underline misspelled words as you type, much like MS Word does).
Before installing this I suggest you first uninstall the existing version and restart Firefox. Not doing this may cause complications.
You can get it from this site http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=351130&start=0 and click on Install Spellbound Dev
Or just click this link to install it now http://exchangecode.com/spellbound/downloads/spellbound-dev_20060108.xpi
(this is current as of May 5th 2005 which is approximately when Firefox 1.5.0.3 came out)
You will need to tell Firefox to TRUST this download source. You’ll see a bar appear at the top of your browser window stating a download was blocked. Just click on OPTIONS and tell it to trust the source. Then click on the download/install link again.
With the check as you go feature, you can SHIFT-Left click on the misspelled word and it will show you the suggestions. Neat.
Happy Firefoxing…
Jonathan
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