Spell Check gone? (1 Viewer)

[joecrow]

Up untill recently I'm sure there was a spell checker on new posts, (misspelled words were highlighted). It does not seem to be working anymore, has something in this respect changed on the forum, is it a setting issue for me alone or am I mistaken and it was never there????

 

[CyberSimian]

Up until recently I'm sure there was a spell checker on new posts, (misspelled words were highlighted).

It seems to be working for me; misspelled words are underlined with a red wavy line.

I have just looked through the profile settings for the MP web site, but there does not seem to be a setting to enable or disable spell-checking. So I think that it is the web browser that is doing the spell checking. I use Firefox, and in the "General" tab of "Settings" there is a setting Check your spelling as you type, which is enabled on my system.

-- from CyberSimian in the UK

 

[joecrow]

I use Firefox, and in the "General" tab of "Settings" there is a setting Check your spelling as you type, which is enabled on my system.

Me too and can confirm I do hafe that setting enabled, writing this in Edge (default set up and hafe is highlighted) strange. I'm running Firefox 146.0.0, what version do you have?

 

[CyberSimian]

I'm running Firefox 146.0.0, what version do you have?

Apparently I have 146.0.1 (64-bit). And there is a smiley-face icon with Firefox is up to date.

I usually leave Firefox running but minimised when I am not web browsing, and I have noticed that Firefox updates are not installed (this may be a result of the Firefox settings that I am using). So periodically I close Firefox and restart it, at which point it updates to the latest release.

-- from CyberSimian in the UK

 

[joecrow]

Very odd, I have been through all the settings and disabled popup blockers and extensions etc. but still no spell check.

 

[joecrow]

I'm running Firefox 146.0.0,

Typo, that should read Firefox 146.0.1 and also 64 bit!

 

[high]

Up untill recently I'm sure there was a spell checker on new posts, (misspelled words were highlighted). It does not seem to be working anymore, has something in this respect changed on the forum, is it a setting issue for me alone or am I mistaken and it was never there????

thats a browser setting on your local system. The forum software does not offer any kind of spell check.

does your Firefox have the matching language tools installed?

Wörterbücher und Sprachpakete – Add-ons für Firefox (de)

Laden Sie Erweiterungen für Firefox-Wörterbücher und -Sprachpakete herunter. Fügen Sie der Rechtschreibprüfung Ihres Browsers eine neue Sprachoption hinzu oder ändern Sie die Sprache der Benutzeroberfläche des Browsers.

addons.mozilla.org

 

[joecrow]

Thanks for the suggestion, I have English GB selected (same as Windows) tried English US but still not working!

 

[joecrow]

Got it.
I clicked on the box highlighted in the attached screenshot and also added English GB to that and removed the existing English EN. Misspellled words (like that one) are now underlined with red wavy line.