RuthEllison.com » Browsers http://www.ruthellison.com Ruth Ellison on user experience design, usability and accessibility Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:08:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Correcting misspellings in Firefox 2.0 dictionary http://www.ruthellison.com/2006/11/correcting-misspellings-in-firefox-20-dictionary/ http://www.ruthellison.com/2006/11/correcting-misspellings-in-firefox-20-dictionary/#comments Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:56:04 +0000 Ruth Ellison http://www.ruthellison.com/2006/11/10/correcting-misspellings-in-firefox-20-dictionary/ After accidentally adding a misspelled word to the Firefox 2.0 dictionary, I was scratching my head on how to get rid of that misspelled word.

Firefox dictionary

It seem like it should logically reside in the right click menu, or one of the Firefox menus. Logic aside, there was no easy way to edit the dictionary that I could see. A quick search on google revealed the answer: you have to edit the persdict.dat file.

More information about doing this is at:

PS: Does anyone else find it funny that the Firefox spelling dictionary doesn’t recognise the word “Firefox”?

Ironic?

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  • Updated theme and user interface
  • Built-in phishing protection
  • Enhanced search capabilities using search suggestions
  • Improved tabbed browsing (new links will now open in new tabs as a default – funnily enough, this was the very first thing I changed when I downloaded earlier versions of Firefox!)
  • Resuming your browsing session
  • Previewing and subscribing to Web feeds
  • Inline spell checking

More information is viewable at the Mozilla Firefox 2 Release Notes site.

I’m just in the process of downloading and updating my version of Firefox……

Edit: Just installed it – having major issues trying to run it. Tabbed browsing is broken for me. Will have to try more troubleshooting today after work.

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