Thursday, June 01, 2006

"SpellBound" broken?

If you have recently updated your Firefox Browser to Version 1.5.0.3 you will notice that your spell checker program "SpellBound" no longer functions properly. Fortunately, there is a solution. There is a version called "SpellBound Development" that will do the job. It can be found here. Uninstall the version that you have installed at present. Now go to the "Update 2006.01.03" paragraph at the top of the page and double click where it says "Spellbound Development Version"

(Friday, June 2, 2006 - Please note that Firefox (Version 1.5.0.4) has just been released and you should upgrade to this version because of it's security improvements. Also note that the same "SpellBound" situation still exists and the "fix" as outlined above works with Version 1.5.0.4 of Firefox also.)

In addition to the above, you will have to download and install a "Dictionary" in the language of your choice (ie: "English-US"). Dictionaries from Mozilla Development can be found here. Simply download and install the dictionary as you would any other Firefox "extension". Note that the dictionary will be installed into the SpellBound extension and therefore will not appear as an individual extension in your extensions list.

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