[NBLUG/talk] Autospell check in ubuntu.. maybe other linuxs

Steve Johnson srj at adnd.com
Mon Oct 13 23:26:57 PDT 2008


Thanks, I will try this when I get to work tomorrow.

And for the record, I am a CLI guy :) quite comfy in that world.

-Steve


On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:29 PM, William Tracy <afishionado at gmail.com>wrote:

> This is a Firefox thing. I don't know why Firefox don't give you an
> easy interface for undoing this, but I found how to do it manually.
>
> This is probably easier to do via the command line, but since I don't
> know how comfortable you are with Linux, I'm going to try to walk you
> through using the GUI.
>
> First, close Firefox. Open your home folder (Places -> Home). Make
> hidden files visible (View -> Show Hidden Files).
>
> Open the .mozilla folder, then the firefox folder inside of that.
> Inside that folder should be your user profile--it will be a folder
> named something random ending with ".default". Open that.
>
> In here, there should be a file named persdict.dat. If you want to
> preserve your existing custom dictionary entries, you could edit this
> file. Otherwise, just delete it. :-)
>
> Start Firefox again (and maybe turn "show hidden files" back off) and
> you should be good to go.
>
> Incidentally, if you ever really screw up Firefox, you can just delete
> your entire profile folder to reset your settings. This will delete
> all your bookmarks, though, so be careful.
>
> --
> William Tracy
> afishionado at gmail.com -- wtracy at calpoly.edu
> Vice President, Cal Poly Linux Users' Group
> http://www.cplug.org
>
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