When Mozilla launched Firefox 2, they included a built in spell checker, which is kind of awesome whether you spend a lot of day entering text in a web-based mail, blogging, or word processing application. But for some reason, the Firefox spell checker only looks at large text areas, like the body of your newsletter or blog post. The title fields aren’t checked by default. And that’s why your blog posts and e mail subject lines always look so terrible. (We’ll confess that has bitten us in the behind a few times as well)

But it turns out that enabling

1. Open up the Firefox configuration window by typing about:config in your URL bar
2. Type layout.spellcheckDefault in the filter box
3. Change the value from 1 to 2

That’s it. Now open up any window with a text box and misspell a word. Firefox should underline it in red, and when you right visit on the word you should get spelling suggestions.

Original post by Brad Linder

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