Posts tagged extensions

Tip Jar: Firefox Spell Check – Do Word-style grammar squiggly underline

Jun 14th

Posted by Administrator in E-Musings

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The Download Squad dug out this gem from the Mozilla Knowledgebase.

Firefox’s integrated spell checker is extremely handy for avoiding an embarrassing typo in an email, blog post, or Twitter update, but after a while, the light red underline is easy to ignore. Fix that with a quick about:config tweak as follows:

  1. Enter About:config in the Firefox address bar. If it pops up an alert, tell it that you know what you’re doing and proceed.
  2. Search for ui.SpellCheckerUnderlineStyle. If you find anything, skip to step 5.
  3. If your system is like mine, you found nothing. That means you have to add this configuration value. Right-click the More >
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Plug that Burning (er, Firefox) Leak

Dec 15th

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If you are as regular a Firefox user as I. You do need to be aware of two key learnings about Firefox extensions.

First, it’s not a good idea to load up your browser with multiple extensions. The greater the installed extensions, the longer the browser takes to fire up (load into memory for the non-geeky). And think by installing then disabling extensions speeds matters up. You are W-R-O-N-G!

As far as Firefox is concerned those extensions must be loaded. Before the next instruction is to disable them. They remain embedded into memory along with the rest of the browser. Until More >

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