Lion and spell check in Safari

I fill in a form on a web page then bring up "Spelling and Grammar" / "Show Spelling and Grammar." It brings up a word that it thinks is mispelled but the word is spelled as I intended so I click on "Ignore." The result of doing this is that everything that I have written disappears!
The same thing happens in Mail. If there are any mispellings in this I apologize - I'm now afraid to use spell check!
Is there some setting that I have set incorrectly, or is this a major bug in Lion? All worked correctly in my previous Snow Lepord installation.

If you read the the details it said it fixed:
The OS X Lion v10.7.1 Update is recommended for all users running OS X Lion and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability and compatibility of your Mac, including fixes that:
Address an issue that may cause the system to become unresponsive when playing a video in Safari.
Resolve an issue that may cause system audio to stop working when using HDMI or optical audio out.
Improve the reliability of Wi-Fi connections.
Resolve an issue that prevents transfer of your data, settings, and compatible applications to a new Mac running OS X Lion.
Resolve an issue in which an admin user account could be missing after upgrading to OS X Lion.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4764

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The send and spell check options are next to each other. I can not tell you how many times I hit the send button be accident. When sending, and question of 'Are you sure you want to send now?', should be asked.
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Actually, unless something has changed, you can set Thunderbird to run an automatic spell check when you click Send. That might be your best workaround.
Tools menu > Options > Composition panel > Spelling mini-tab
(You can display the classic menu bar by tapping the Alt key)
It might also be possible to customize the toolbar, but I think this might be safer.
Regarding a general confirmation for sending, I noticed some add-ons for that, but I don't have any personal recommendations.

Safari and spell checking

Still new and still learning....
I am unable to believe that the safari browser doesn't have a spell checker for typed fields like this one I'm typing in without having to reactivate.
"The Check Spelling as You Type" feature only remains active as long as Safari is open; it must be reactivated each time the browser starts.
Is there a way (or a plug in) that will work around this?
My Google tool bar took care of that (on that old evil PC I have)
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Where would I find what you have mentioned below? I'm in the process of switching from a lifetime of PC and I still get a little lost on the mac file structure
Have you tried
deleting your com.apple.Safari.plist file in your
~/Library/Preferences/ folder while Safari is not
open (then reopen Safari, select "Check Spelling as I
type", close Safari, open it again and it should
stick)?
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Lion auto spell check.

lion has an auto spell check all over the place. Since I move between three languages, and Lion defaults to English this is a major pain. Where are the settings for changing the language of the auto spell check? or alternatively, how do I shut it off?
It was irritating enough on the phone, now I have the same dam thing all over my Mac too!

Use this tutorial... http://itracki.com/dev/mac-tutorials/mac-tutorial-disable-spelling-correction-os -lion/
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Not having your system software up to date may be part of the problem.
And could be Safari prefs are corrupted.
Quit Safari.
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edited by: cs

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I am a linguist who writes papers primarily in English, but which contain a significant number of words and paragraphs in other languages. Is there a way (as there is in MSWord) to highlight these words and passages and choose a different language for them so that the spell checker does not see them as English misspelled words.
Even better would be for the spell checker to identify eventual errors in these paragraphs of foreign languages: However, when I choose EDIT > SPELLING > SPELLING... the spelling checker window has no button or menu allowing the user to select different languages or language dictionaries.
I know that Mail does it automatically for the languages provided. Is there anything comparable in Pages?
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drew,
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Except for one thing that drives me nuts...
The spell check. I live in Scandinavia, but like to use English as my interface language. This causes major problems, when I write something in Danish.
Is there any way to have English as the interface language, but use another language for spell checking?
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is there a way to get spell-checker on it?
I checked the preferences... but nothing.
any suggestions?

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Any of you great people got spell checking enabled in epiphany 2.26.2-1. I can't seem to enable it.
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Last edited by timttmy (2009-06-23 18:43:49)

I got it working
I had to add the line
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in ~/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/prefs.js
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