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German spelling checker needed

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Would like to get a German spelling checker working within Firefox (similar to the way it exists for Thunderbird). Can that spelling checker be installed in Firefox 4?

Would like to get a German spelling checker working within Firefox (similar to the way it exists for Thunderbird). Can that spelling checker be installed in Firefox 4?

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Seçilmiş Həll

You can get the German dictionary from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/language-tools/

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Works like a charm; thanks. I find that when switching to the other language, one needs to right click on the first marked (unknown) word, then go down the opening window and change the active language.

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You can see which dictionary is selected if you right-click in a text area and open the Languages submenu.