Spell checker question

The text I'm entering on a particular forum is not being checked for spelling errors. A member of that forum said it didn't have a spell checker and he used an add on for his browser which was internet explorer. Is there a similar add-on for Firefox?
Thanks. Jim B.

''jimbir wrote:''
"Not all locales come with a dictionary installed due to licensing reasons." Could this be the problem?
The English (United States) version has a dictionary installed by default. Regardless of your Firefox language, if you want more dictionaries, the aforementioned article explains how to add them.
''jimbir wrote:''
When I right click on the box, I see the check spelling option has a check mark next to it but it doesn't seem to be working.
Does the forum in question have a Reply box that is accessible to unregistered users? If so, could you post a link to the page?

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I was not sure about it, but I saw that sometimes a sentence would have a marked phrase, and Proofread would stop at it, and the only context option is "Never Hyphenate". There was not hyphen involved.
So I did a test. I typed the a few sentences in, all of which had grammar problems in the competing wordprocessor.
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Question asked and responded many times.
The spell checker behavior is ruled by the language setting applying to the pieces of text.
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This is a test of mark as question from Spell Check.

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I know this is not great, but works until we find the time to change it.
Best, Mark.

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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.
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Automatically spell check these "submit my question to the cmmunity"

Automatically spell check these the questions to the community like Google does. Google provides alternative searches when you misspell a word in the search. Would seem reasonable for Apple too.
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TIPS:
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How do i remove a word from spell check in OS X 10.4?

Hi all, I accidentally added a misspelled word to the spell check dictionary and i was wondering how to remove it.
I noticed there were already a few similar questions, but i could not get their solutions to work, as they were obviously using a new version of OS X.
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