Mike was the " spell checker " coding recently turned off on the Forum replies?

 

I have automatic spell checking turned on in FireFox 40.03, and it recently stopped working on this site. Drove me nuts as I thought it was a general FF issue and spent the last two days troubleshooting.

 

Turns out it still works fine in other forums and it used to work fine here.

Whad due ewe meen?

Aye dun't noe. Eye amm usign Kroam, and it iz mahrking wurds four mee that aye am speling rong.

Mien kwetz werking sumtymes tuu.  Youzealee afder updadeing.  Fur whut ets wearth.

Haha, nope it's noeat turned off.  Works fine on maaqw computer.  Using Chrome Version 45.0.2454.85 (64-bit)

 

Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe, All mimsy were the borough groves and the mumm wraths outgrabe.

 

 

Nope doesn't work with IE either...

Trying this again on a Win7 PC using IE 11.  Speil check seims to be wrking.

 

It will highlight the misspelled words in red, but, it's up to you to right click and accept the suggested word.  Some of the words are automatically updated but not many...

 

Do you guys have our site in your trusted sites list and allowing cookies?  What version of OS are you using?

Mmm, cookies...I accept your cookies on the condition you also provide milk. Also, you must never mix oatmeal raisin with chocolate chip. That is just plain evil.

Mike, I've done some more research and it looks like it may be a weird problem with the latets FF update ( 40.03 ). There's a Bug handling Language packs and " some " Websites ( not All ) cause the default US English Langauge pack to revert to UK Englsh Language pack. This temporarly " breaks " the built in Spell Checker which only works with the US Language pack Dictionary.

 

Hopefully a future upadte will fix the " Bug " I do wish thye would stop " improving " FF and leave it alone!!!

 

( I don't like Chromes GUI and I will not use IE ).

 

BTW. OS is Win XP Pro 32 bit on my laptop. ( Engine diagnostics so I need an OS that will handle 16 bit programs. ) Desktop sytem is Win 7 64 bit, but I'm on Holidays right now and can't check it. I expect that FF would have the same issue on Win 7 though.

You must tyre of the UK spell checking.

OK forget about it!! Juts got home from Vacation, and Spell checking works fine on my Desktop with FF 40.03. Must be a user setting that got changed on my Laptop. Time to dig into " about:config " and compare side by side.