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[ssl232]

Spell check just needs a dictionary installed, not a plugin. This takes about three clicks.

[kkarakk → ssl232]

three clicks i'd never heard out til today(i just got irritated by the lack of functionality and do my form filling in chrome)

[wlll → ssl232]

I'm on a mac and everything else spell checks just fine, so:

1. Why not Firefox?

2. Why do I have to jump through some undocumented hoops to get something that should work out of the box?

[toofy → ssl232]

I'm guessing they meant "No spellcheck in forms without jumping through more hoops."

[wlll → toofy]

Right. When I looked into how to get spell checking in form fields all the advice I could find on the Internet was "install a plugin".

It seems to me that spell checking of form fields should be a basic feature integrated into the browser.