See Tools > Options > Advanced : General: Browsing: "Check my spelling as I type"

• Press F10 or tap the Alt key to bring up the "Menu Bar" temporarily if the Menu Bar is hidden.
• Use "Firefox > Options" instead of "Tools > Options" if the menu bar is hidden.

It still didn't work. The spell check that I want to use is called ie spell,maybe it's not design to work with Firefox I just don't know.

The spell check in fire fox would be great if it gave you some spelling solutions but it just underlines the mispelled word and I need something that will give you sample words to figure out the correct one to use like ie spell check.

I not a very good speller, after I typed this I enabled spell check and found 7 misspelled words!! I had to ask my family how to spell them just to get the red line off. but 3 words still showing

Do you have a dictionary installed and selected?

• You can see which dictionary is selected if you right-click in a text area and open the Languages submenu.
• Open the "Add Dictionaries" link to install a dictionary if you do not have one.
• Make sure that [X] "Check Spelling" in the right-click context menu is check-marked.

You can look here for dictionaries:

• https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/language-tools/

See also:

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Spell_checking
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dictionaries
• https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Using+the+spell+checker

walkingdead, are you using the en-US language of Firefox? as almost all other languages (I think fr does also) do not come with a dictionary due to license reasons.

ieSpell is for Internet Explorer and various shells for IE.

I take it you are a fan of the AMC show.

Thanks James I guess that's why I can't get it to work with fire fox. Thanks for the info P.S. cor-el had given me a good idea and I was just about to try it.I'll let you all know if it works

Thank you for all the time and trouble that I have caused cor-el and James. But it looks like cor-el had the solution to my problem. I needed to install an dictionary on my computer. can you beat that, something as simple as a dictionary!! Again Thank You all The problem is fixed HOORAY